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Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier Picture Quote #1

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die Picture Quote #1

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others Picture Quote #1

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled Picture Quote #1

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother’s contribution in his progress and his teacher’s contribution in his growth and development Picture Quote #1

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing Picture Quote #1

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives Picture Quote #1

Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time Picture Quote #1

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure Picture Quote #1

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography Picture Quote #1

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If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him Picture Quote #1

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written Picture Quote #1

There’s no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present Picture Quote #1

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography Picture Quote #1

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine Picture Quote #1

I don’t want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone Picture Quote #1

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Of all the events which constitute a person’s biography, there is scarcely one... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death Picture Quote #1

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own Picture Quote #1

A musician’s biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing Picture Quote #1

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records Picture Quote #1

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem Picture Quote #1

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps Picture Quote #1

I think that I’m busy in the present, and I don’t want to go back. Well, there’s been an unauthorized biography, and you can’t stop them. It didn’t worry me Picture Quote #1

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down Picture Quote #1

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue Picture Quote #1

May I therefore acknowledge the tender glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flattering attention paid me by your gentleman of ready wreath and quick biography! Picture Quote #1

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Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier (Biography Quotes) There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die (Biography Quotes) Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others (Biography Quotes) Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled (Biography Quotes) I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject (Biography Quotes) 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 (Biography Quotes) If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother’s contribution in his progress and his teacher’s contribution in his growth and development (Biography Quotes) Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing (Biography Quotes) The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives (Biography Quotes) Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time (Biography Quotes) The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure (Biography Quotes) There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography (Biography Quotes) If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him (Biography Quotes) Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written (Biography Quotes) There’s no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present (Biography Quotes) As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography (Biography Quotes) If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine (Biography Quotes) I don’t want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone (Biography Quotes) Of all the events which constitute a person’s biography, there is scarcely one... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death (Biography Quotes) The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own (Biography Quotes) A musician’s biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing (Biography Quotes) Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records (Biography Quotes) A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem (Biography Quotes) I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas (Biography Quotes) 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 (Biography Quotes) The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps (Biography Quotes) I think that I’m busy in the present, and I don’t want to go back. Well, there’s been an unauthorized biography, and you can’t stop them. It didn’t worry me (Biography Quotes) It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down (Biography Quotes) The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue (Biography Quotes) May I therefore acknowledge the tender glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flattering attention paid me by your gentleman of ready wreath and quick biography! (Biography Quotes)

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