About Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get…

— David Strathairn

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

— William Ellery Channing

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and…

— Mark Twain

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

— Anonymous

He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.

— Wilson Mizner

it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was…

— Lauren Oliver

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

— Lawrence Welk

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

— Alan Arkin

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

— John McEnroe

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

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon