Quotes About Biography

A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.

cta est fbula: plaudite! (Suetonius Aug. 99.1: plaud, plaudere, plaus, plausum, to strike with a flat surface, clap; applaud; "plaudit," "explode." Augustus' last words, according to his biographer.)

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

All Philosophy is Biography

Girls Like Us by the journalist Sheila Weller,

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

David Herbert Donald

David Herbert Donald

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.