Biographies Quotes - Page 2

A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

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

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

Your biography becomes your biology.

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

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

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.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

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

[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.

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.