Biography Quote by Georges F. Doriot

“(Perhaps we all should be so lucky to read our own obituaries…)”

— Sam Kean

“And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I used to read the obituaries to gloat over all the people I've outlived, but now I don't think it matters, we all live…

— Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

— William Faulkner

“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn…

— David Halberstam

“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.”

— Deana J. Driver

You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing, third-rate journalism.…

— Donald Trump

“I know from personal experience that readers lead richer lives, more lives, than those who don’t read.”

— Donalyn Miller

“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.”

— Emil M. Cioran

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

— Thomas Carlyle

“More than half of the obituaries are that of delight.”

— Mantaranjot Mangat

“Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.”

— B.R. Myers