Quotes About Biography

There may be no book on the mothers of poets, or artists in general, but it might one day be written and would be, I think, an enlightening read.

Historians are trained to look for personal biography in every idea, no matter how scientifically objective it is supposed to be, and to look for the influence of contemporary opinion on the rise and fall of scientific theories.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

they're contained in their bodies, in the biographical facts of their lives.

Unsociable even at home and unable to meet the eyes of strangers when she ventured out, Emily made her awkward way across days and years whose bareness appalls her biographers.

Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

If you're writing an impartial proper biography, you speak to everyone around them who really know them, you do not need, unless you're a minister of propaganda, to have input from the person.

When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

Biography is the falsest of the arts.

Envidio —pero no sé si envidio de veras— a aquéllos de quienes se puede escribir una biografía, o que pueden escribir su propia biografía. En estas expresiones sin continuidad ni deseo alguno de continuidad, narro con indiferencia mi autobiografía sin hechos, mi historia sin vida. Son mis Confesiones, y si en ellas nada digo, es que nada tengo que decir.

When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of actors and famous people.

I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they usually suggest a biography. Sometimes I'm tempted, but the prospect of spending years researching and writing about someone else's life offends my vanity.