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Biography Quotes

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

Feel Sometimes Biography Obvious Too

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

Man Clothes Biography Cannot Buttons

A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.

Truth Great Tell Biography Must

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

Will Always Biography Autobiography

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

Research More Biography Urban Books

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

Myself Actor Biography Just Movie

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

Psychology Biography Autobiography

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

Biography Central Campaign His John

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

George Plimpton

Jury Biography Pleasures Rather Than

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Present Interesting Biography Which

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Death New Biography Terrors

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

Writing Biography Five Like Dickens

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

History Biography Intersection Proper

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey

Better Biography Discretion Part

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

Want My Own Own Biography Somebody

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Death New Biography Terror Lends

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

John Kenneth Galbraith

Why Fiction Biography Why Not

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

Book Tell Biography Because Like

I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

Know Want Biography Just Everybody

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Day Say Way Write Biography Started

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

William Ellery Channing

Good Worth Biography Volume Anecdote

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

You House Become Leave Biography

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