Biographies Quote by Phyllis Rose

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real…

— Claire Tomalin

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

— Deana J. Driver

Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A…

— T.C. Boyle

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

— Gloria Swanson

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

— David Cassidy

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

— John McEnroe

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

— Wole Soyinka

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

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

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

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset