Biographies Quotes

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

Cannot, Himself, Written

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Shortest, Geniuses

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
Deepak Chopra

Negative, Side, Western

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, Help, Poor

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
Barbra Streisand

Truth, Interested, Yes

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Walter Lippmann

Political, Human, Once

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
Harold Acton

Time, Best, Two

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

Life, Lives, Read

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.
John Legend

Political, Read, Rights

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.
Joyce Maynard

Love, School, Girl

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
Wilbur Smith

Read, Books, African

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

Money, Best, Hate

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
Robert Caro

Life, Great, Power

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

Love, Philosophy, Read

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Walter Isaacson

Abundance, Material, Subjects

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Walter Isaacson

Amazing, Human, Write

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
Anthony Holden

End, Book, Living

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, Book, Writing

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, Before, Few

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
Antonia Fraser

Long, Between, Historical

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.
Kitty Kelley

Between, Difference, Riding

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
Kitty Kelley

Society, Tell, Written

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.
Gustavo Dudamel

Love, Time, Focus

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
Bruno Tonioli

Love, History, Reading

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
Michael Eisner

Successful, Made, Become

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

Good, True, Thought

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
Seth Grahame-Smith

Time, History, Same

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
Seth Grahame-Smith

History, Reading, Enjoyed

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

Famous, Person, Give

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

Passion, Reading, Interest

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