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The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell. Juicy J

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.

Gretchen Rubin

I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he was an all-rounder, writing short stories, novels, memoir, travelogue, critical biography. He lived to be almost 100, and he never stopped, and his work is unified by a great generosity of spirit.

Kevin Barry

I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

Brad Feld

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

Antonia Fraser

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Pamela Stephenson

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli

For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.

Floyd Skloot

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

Dawn French

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Martin Lewis Perl

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

Miguel Ferrer

I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

Bill Mumy

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what's generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.

H. W. Brands

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Conrad Veidt

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

Helena Bonham Carter

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

Richard Attenborough

I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of course, think the biographer's view is always something to keep in mind.

Stacy Schiff

John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements.

Thomas Mallon

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

Edmund White

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'

Stacy Schiff

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.

Kitty Kelley

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.

Kathryn Harrison

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

Barbara Kruger

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Todd Gitlin

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.

Albert Finney

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

Iain Sinclair

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

Thomas Szasz

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm an avid biography reader.

Brent Spiner

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

Neil MacGregor

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Philip Guedalla

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

Cilla Black

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

V. S. Naipaul