Truth Quote by Teodoro A. Agoncillo

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

— Mark Twain

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

“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

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record…

— Samuel Smiles

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts…

— Theodor Haecker

Let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great; that it lies within human ability to overcome…

— Lyndon Baines Johnson

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

— Iris Origo

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study.…

— Horace Mann

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

— Thornton Wilder

I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of…

— Stacy Schiff

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

— Deana J. Driver

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