Biography Quotes

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

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.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

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

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

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

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

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

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

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

I'm an avid biography reader.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

I had lost faith in biography.