Anatomy Quote by Robert Aris Willmott

“As people like sharing pieces of their history, let us listen to how they speak, what they say, but precisely what they “mean.” By…

— Erik Pevernagie

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the…

— Robert Hall

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

— Rachel Holmes

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

— William Ellery Channing

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people…

— Alice Munro

“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

I was interested in the ways we can write biography. When you're first starting to write about your own life it feels so shapeless…

— Sarah Gerard

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

— Chuck Palahniuk

[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

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers