Quotes and Sayings About Biographies
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
-- A. Scott Berg -
Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho
-- Aaron Allston -
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
-- Abraham Pais -
I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'
-- Alexandra Roach -
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
-- Alfred Nobel -
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
-- Alice Stewart -
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.
-- Ann Wroe -
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
-- Anthony Marra -
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 -
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
-- Antonia Fraser -
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
-- Antonia Fraser -
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
-- Arthur Balfour -
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero -
My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.
-- Astley Cooper -
The creative person should have no other biography than his works.
-- B. Traven -
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
-- Barbara Taylor Bradford -
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
-- Barbra Streisand -
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
-- Bronislaw Malinowski -
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frasier, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.
-- Bronislaw Malinowski -
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
-- Bruno Tonioli -
Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.
-- C.P. Snow -
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 -
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
-- Carolyn Wells -
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.
-- Charles Darwin -
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.
-- Charles Darwin
