Biographies Quotes - Page 8

I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.

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

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

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

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

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

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.

Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.

I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.

The man who walks with Henslow.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.

There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.