Biography Quotes

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

I'm an avid biography reader.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

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

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

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

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.