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• I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd
• Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour
• I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers… — David Bowie
• Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner
• Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,… — A. S. Byatt
• When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it… — Jane Campion
• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
• I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It… — Helena Bonham Carter
• One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. — William Ellery Channing
• Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. — Deepak Chopra
• Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most… — Mark Twain
• I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better… — Charles Babbage

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