Biography Quote by Milan Kundera

“The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.”

— Thornton Wilder

“Biography is the falsest of the arts.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too…

— Boris Becker

“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known…

— Ira Bruce Nadel

I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's…

— Stephen Shore

What you seem to find when you get into this biography business is that people tend to have an image of themselves that they…

— Mark Kurlansky

“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul

[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so…

— Iris Origo