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I'm an avid biography reader.
I had lost faith in biography.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
I view my records as a personal biography.
Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography.
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.
John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.
My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
I can't even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
I am reading the biography of Pep Guardiola. I find it really interesting.
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
I liked Tom Bower's biography of Bernie Ecclestone, the former Formula 1 boss.
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.
My life is very simple, it is not worth being written into a biography, for that 'masala' is required.
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.