Quotes About Biography

For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the margin of a draft - until the day when even the most devoted portraitist of the dead says, "Enough!" Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible - resurrection.

Less is known about Magellan's mother, Alda de Mesquita

and Cristóvão Rebêlo, his illegitimate son.

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.

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

Dar pretinde, în schimb, c? exist? un motiv pentru care orice persoan? se afl? aici, acum, È™i c? exist? misiuni ce trebuiesc îndeplinite dincolo de rutina zilnic? È™i care confer? semnificaÈ›ie rutinei zilnice, sentimentul c? întreg universul vrea cumva ca persoana mea s? existe È™i c? sunt rodul unei imagini apriorice pe care doar o completez cu am?nuntele biografiei mele.

Jung once observed that we cannot grow up until we can see our parents as other adults, special to our biography certainly, wounded perhaps, but most of all simply other people who did or did not take on the largeness of their own journey. We have our own journey, for sure, and that is large enough to take us beyond our personal history toward our full potential.

What we have become is typically an assemblage of defense mechanisms and anxiety-management systems generated by the adaptive needs that our fate-fueled biographies bring to us.

I heard Springsteen was an unhappy person. I don't know, I haven't read his biography. But a lot of people in my field should be a lot more unhappy than they are.

I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than the fact that I am right-handed. It's a fact of my biography, but it's uninteresting.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

I started reading the Carlos Baker biography of Dad but couldn't finish it. I had the impression I was reading about a guy who, well, just wouldn't be very nice to be around. I wish Baker could have known Dad because exactly the opposite was true.

I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.

What you seem to find when you get into this biography business is that people tend to have an image of themselves that they want to project, and they want to color statements by this image.

The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

If you're looking for a behind-the-scenes rock-n-roll biography, pick up Nikki Sixx's 'The Heroin Diaries'. If you want the world's most narcissistic high school yearbook, however, 'First Step 2 Forever' is your new bicycle.

Jesus Christ wrote no account of himself, of his birth, parentage, or anything else. Not a line of what is called the New Testament is of his writing.

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

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.

I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.