Biographies Quotes (page 5)

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• writing
• kindness
• character

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. Miguel Ferrer

• great
• greatness
• genius

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• good
• book
• fun

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! Erin Duffy

• career
• life
• ambition

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. David Herbert Donald

• life
• reading
• history

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

• expectation
• untapped
• thy

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

• corrected
• interestingly
• interest

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. Barbra Streisand

• him
• look
• manly

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information. David Strathairn

• discrete
• partly
• discretion

Discretion is not the better part of biography. Lytton Strachey

• thinking
• people
• true

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. Anthony Powell

• editors
• pleasurable
• than

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

• good
• thoughts
• true

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one. Pamela Stephenson

• personality
• writing
• perfect

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

• humanity
• domestic
• transit

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. George Steiner

• girl
• reading
• school

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. Joyce Maynard