Biographies Quote by Deana J. Driver

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our…

— Eric Metaxas

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got…

— Leslie Caron

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

— Wole Soyinka

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

— A. S. Byatt

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever…

— Scott Lynch

Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years - particularly…

— John Larroquette

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg

“I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.”

— Bauvard

“The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

— Iris Origo

“A biography should be faithful to the truth. I do not believe that a biography of a man should be all praises, it should…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

— Phyllis Rose