Abuse Quote by Eva Mendes

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

— David Cassidy

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 have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

— Kitty Kelley

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know…

— Mary Cable

But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why…

— John Green

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which…

— Janet Malcolm

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

— A. Scott Berg

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

There are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I used to…

— Sandra Cisneros

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always…

— Rachel Holmes

I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'

— Steve Lukather

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

— William Ellery Channing