Biography Quotes

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

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

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

I'm an avid biography reader.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

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.

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.

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.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

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.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

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

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

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.

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 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.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!

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

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.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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.