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Tag Name "Biographies" (302)

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As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non - fiction - histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.
Dan Brown
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
V. S. Naipaul
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Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.
Theodore Dalrymple
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Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.
Caroline Myss
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I wanted to make a film that wasn't just a biography. When you watched it, you actually felt that you watched a movie, that you had an emotional reaction. In order to do that, I felt that I had to really keep myself emotionally raw while working on the film. I had to feel myself crying, so the audience could be moved, too.
Tamra Davis
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.
Alexander III of Russia
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There is properly no history, only biography.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.
Kitty Kelley
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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
Virginia Woolf
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I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.
Sammy Hagar
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The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
Joseph Campbell
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs
Will Rogers
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Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I thought of his stern but kindly visage and buckled down and wrote the damn thing, because there’s so much information out there, and these are such anxious times in democracy, such unreasonable times.
Jeffrey Rosen
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To my deep mortification my father once said to me, You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.
Charles Darwin
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When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say This is a historical novel.
Nicholas Meyer
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
Alfred Nobel
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While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Evelyn Waugh
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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.
Susan Sontag
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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.
Narendra Modi
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What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
Johannes Brahms
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
Bernard Malamud
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