Biography Quotes - page 2

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue. (Dmitri Shostakovich)
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. View quote
A. Scott Berg
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. View quote
Norman Spinrad
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche? View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era. View quote
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable. View quote
Lauren Groff
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. View quote
Antonia Fraser
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. View quote
Aharon Appelfeld
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 and on and on. (Christine Quinn)
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. View quote
Conrad Veidt
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. View quote
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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. View quote
David Herbert Donald
The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography. View quote
Kitty Kelley
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. View quote
Kitty Kelley
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. View quote
Kate Fleetwood
This is the best biography by me I have ever read. View quote
Lawrence Welk
John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign. View quote
Mark Shields
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. View quote
Miguel Ferrer
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. (Pamela Stephenson)
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. View quote
Robert Caro
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. View quote
Robert Caro
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. View quote
Robert Caro
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. View quote
Richard Attenborough