Funny Quotes Of The Day Biography
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain
Cannot, Himself, Written
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
Death, Terror, Lends
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
Great, History, Men
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles
Present
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli
Life, History, Read
If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.
Clint Eastwood
Mind, Reality, Him
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
History, Lose, Teaching
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Louis L'Amour
Time, History, May
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
John Kenneth Galbraith
Why, Fiction, Escapist
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Arthur Balfour
Enemy, Written, Acute
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Robert Hall
History, Attention, Individual
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
Thomas Szasz
Psychology
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
Few, Line, Poet
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life, Human, System
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
Lawrence Welk
Best, Read
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
Good, Worth, Anecdote
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
Love, Truth, Difficult
I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
Helena Bonham Carter
Good, Mother, Reading
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul
Writer
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
V. S. Naipaul
Art, Great, History
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Anita Brookner
Women, Men, Simple
I had lost faith in biography.
A. N. Wilson
Faith, Lost
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
Kathy Griffin
Special, Comedy, Central
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
Joyce Carol Oates
Memories, High, Fiction
It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Time, Women, Best
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
Morning, May, Days
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.
John Irving
Personal, Place, Novels
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
A. S. Byatt
History, Someone, Happen
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
Robert Caro
Power, Political, Guy
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
Peter Ackroyd
Personal, Fiction, Expressive
I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.
Marina and the Diamonds
Star, Read, Scared
So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me.
Michael Palin
Story, Tell, Asking
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.
Christine Quinn
Great, School, Story
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
Emmylou Harris
Else, Somebody
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
Death, Words, Off
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
Dawn French
Life, Experience, Someone
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
Reza Aslan
Jesus, Popular, Material
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.
Jane Campion
Love, Story, Read
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
Jane Campion
Deep, Reading, Between
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.
Barbara Kruger
History, Book, Film
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Matter, Means, Soon
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
Robert Caro
Life, Power, Famous
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
Robert Caro
History, Writing, Trying
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
Peter Ackroyd
Life, History, Become
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
Todd Gitlin
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