Quotes of: Biographies Keyword

It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.

The Dream Life of Balso Snell

It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re:

Standing in the Sun: A Biography of J.M.W.Turner

History repeats, but science reverberates.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

Claire Tomalin

There are numerous biographies of Woolf. Biography has been highly influential in shaping the reception ofWoolf ’s work, and her life has been as much debated as her writing. I would recommend the following three which represent three different bio...

The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf

Great science emerges out of great contradiction.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

Blake Bailey

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

Deana J. Driver

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.

Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known completely, nor would we want to know every fact about an individual. Similarly, no life is ever lived a...

Biography: Fiction, Fact & Form

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

Leslie Caron

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

Reza Aslan

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 ...

Christine Quinn

People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.

Claire Tomalin

La ciencia encarna el deseo humano de entender la naturaleza; la tecnología conjuga ese deseo con la ambición de controlarla.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain