Biographies Quotes - Page 2

• Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

  Philip Guedalla

  Sports, Hunting, Games

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

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• The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

  Derek Walcott

  Moving, Vocabulary, Islands

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.79, Macmillan

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• We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Why Not, Fiction, Economy

  1980 In the NewYork Times, 27 Jul.

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

  E. C. Bentley

  Art, Different, Maps

  'Biography for Beginners' (1905) introduction

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• I'm an avid biography reader.

  Brent Spiner

  Avid, Reader

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

  Cilla Black

  Book

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• While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Sports, Stars, Book

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• As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

  Norman Spinrad

  Children, Reading, Science

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

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Giving, Eras, Wonderful

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• 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

  Ideas, Numbers, Would Be

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

  Walter Jon Williams

  Philosophy, Writing, Science

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• 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

  Robert Caro

  Men, Political, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Robert A. Caro from Aug 26, 2011

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• I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Imagination, Interesting

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• The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

  Lynn Barber

  Race, Interviews, Should

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• The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Writing, Israel, People

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• Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

  Jurgen Habermas

  War, Years, People

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• John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

  Mark Shields

  Campaigns, John Kerry

  "Shields and Kristol Discuss Kerry’s War Record". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 20, 2004.

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

  Al Sharpton

  Philosophy, People, Fiction

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• 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.

  Dawn French

  Lying, Writing, Feelings

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• On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

  Eberhard Weber

  Hands, People, Giving

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• My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

  Nina Blackwood

  Reading, Passion, Musical

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• I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Travel, Fiction, Mathematics

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• At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

  Liam Neeson

  Sex, Four, Indiana

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• There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

  Julius Erving

  Book, People, Typical

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• It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Literature

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