I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.
Stephen McCauley
LovedBiographyBioVictoriaImmense
I'm an avid biography reader.
Brent Spiner
BiographyAvidReader
Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
Nigel Hamilton
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My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.
Janet Malcolm
DoingBiographyKeepEvenThough
I liked Tom Bower's biography of Bernie Ecclestone, the former Formula 1 boss.
Theo Paphitis
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I had lost faith in biography.
A. N. Wilson
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I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
WriteBiographyTerribleLike
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Arthur Balfour
EnemyBiographyShouldWrittenAcute
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
Reza Aslan
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The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
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This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
Lawrence Welk
BestMeBiographyReadEver
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
A. Scott Berg
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The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell.
Juicy J
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Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
Philip Guedalla
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I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
Richard Attenborough
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Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
James McBride
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I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
Kathy Griffin
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.
Joyce Carol Oates
CultureBlondeBiographyMythBaker
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.
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I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.
Richard C. Armitage
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Gore Vidal
BiographyReadMostAbrahamLincoln
I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.
Warren Beatty
MeThinkSomeoneNeverBiography
I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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