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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.
I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.
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.
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.
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.
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
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.
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.
Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'
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.
I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.
I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that I pulled out of my head, that I invented.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.
The past exudes legend: 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.
It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.
To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.
When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of actors and famous people.
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.
I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
Obama was the first president whose biography makes sense to me. He can walk into a room anywhere and find common ground with any person.
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.
