"I thought of the one thing about home……" — John Green

"I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read."

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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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