74 Quotations with Biography.
- 21. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
- 22. John Grigg: Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.
- 23. Mark Twain: Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man ...
- 24. Robert Winder: Biography is a higher gossip.
- 25. Philip Guedalla: Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the sout ...
- 26. Louis Fischer: Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
- 27. John Arbuthnot: Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
- 28. Jose Ortega y Gasset: Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
- 29. Arthur James Balfour: Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
- 30. Havelock Ellis: Every artist writes his own autobiography.
- 31. W. H. Auden: Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, an ...
- 32. Oscar Wilde: Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes t ...
- 33. Robert Penn Warren: For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the dee ...
- 34. Samuel Goldwyn: I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
- 35. Philip Roth: I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm t ...
- 36. Salman Rushdie: If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voicele ...
- 37. Fulton Oursler: In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - ...
- 38. Catherine Drinker Bowen: In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the ...
- 39. Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite t ...
- 40. Philip Roth: It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiogra ...
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