Quotes with biography

  • Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
  • 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.
  • Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
  • 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.
  • No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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  • George Bernard Shaw When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Mark Twain Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Philip Guedalla 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.
    Philip Guedalla
    British historical writer (1889 - 1944)
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  • John Arbuthnot Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
    John Arbuthnot
    Scottish physician, satirist and polymath (1667 - 1735)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Antonia Fraser I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley I think that fiction. history and biography are immensely important, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Mumy I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope 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.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Rebecca West 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.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Anita Brookner Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Buzz Aldrin My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Ellery Channing One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Bernard Malamud One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
    Dubins Lives p. 27.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • William Ellery Channing One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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