Biography Quotes

“It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.”

“Writing a biography is a delicate—not a reckless—process, where the end result, if done properly, is simply the truth revealed. This delicate and intricate research process has never before been done for Bob Crane, a man with a story worth telling.”

“July 7, 1986: Montreux It is only now that I realize the importance of a biography. I mean I always have realized that I enjoy to read (and have learned many things from) the biographies of artists whom I admire. It is probably my main source of education. In the beginning of my “career” (what an awful word) I was misled by a teacher who thought the things I was writing to be pretentious and self important. Years later, when I read those things I wrote in 1978, it didn’t seem so pretentious for almost everything I wrote about “wanting to do,” I actually did in the four or five years that followed.”

“Biography is the only true history.”

“The creative person should have no other biography than his works.”

“One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.”

“Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?”

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.”

“Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.”

“Honey, I work for money not love.”