Biography Quotations
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
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
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Philip Guedalla
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Louis L'Amour
Biography Translations
biography in French is biographie
biography in German is Lebensbeschreibung, Biographie
biography in Swedish is biografi
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