Quotes about biographies
biographies appetite immense
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. Charles Baudelaire
biographies lost lost-faith
I had lost faith in biography. A. N. Wilson
biographies legacy trouble
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. Arthur Wing Pinero
biographies use actors
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. Conrad Veidt
biographies sides negative
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. Deepak Chopra
biographies bills stories
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. James McBride
biographies contradiction human-life
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Jose Ortega y Gasset
biographies admirable autobiography
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. Hilaire Belloc
biographies unloved
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories F. Scott Fitzgerald
biographies remember fit
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. George Bernard Shaw
biographies demonstration dissection
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. H. G. Wells
biographies discretion
Discretion is not the better part of biography. Lytton Strachey
biographies
This is the best biography by me I have ever read. Lawrence Welk
biographies form
Biography is the best form of history. Josh Billings
biographies fiction funny-travel
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. Martin Lewis Perl
biographies actors sucker
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. Kate Fleetwood
biographies pops british
Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. Mick Jagger
biographies maps geography
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. Eric Bentley
biographies want my-own
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. Emmylou Harris
biographies terror
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. John Arbuthnot
biographies anecdotes volume
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. William Ellery Channing
biographies abundance subjects
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. Walter Isaacson
biographies stout earnest
History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons Ralph Waldo Emerson
biographies
There is no history; only biography.
biographies genius talent
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
biographies
All history is biography.
biographies my-biography
Biography is the only true history. Thomas Carlyle
biographies theology
All of our theology must eventually become biography. Tim Hansel
biographies theology
Our theology must become biography.
biographies mills sociologists
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. Todd Gitlin
biographies autobiography incompleteness
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. V. S. Naipaul