"I'm not spitting in my own soup, I……" — Stephen Greenblatt
"I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!"
More Biography Quotes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing… — Robert Aris Willmott
- Someone calls biography the home aspect of history. — Henry Ward Beecher