Quotes of: Biographies Keyword

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

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

Al Sharpton

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Charles J. Shields

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

Iain Sinclair

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

Ben Elliot

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

Bill Paxton

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

George Plimpton

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Anita Brookner

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

Amit Kalantri

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?

Encounter

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

Richard Rhodes

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

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Denis O'Hare

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

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

My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

Buzz Aldrin

Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after Johnson's death in 1784, of producing what is now held to be a model of biography; rich in detail and anecdote, a...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

As the war progresses, and as population increases to an even more intolerable level stretching resources to impossible lengths, the strong will begin fighting for their very survival. That’s what we’re seeing right now. Society will become more ...

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.

The Shape of Water

If my clone writes my biography, is it really an autobiography?

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks