Biography Quotes
On writing biographies, bias, and public interest
These quotes examine what makes biographies compelling or flawed, comparing authorized and unauthorized accounts to riding in comfort versus roughing it. One speaker notes readers prefer personal stories over dry academic History.
The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.
People are interested in people. They buy biographies; they don't buy studies of presidencies.
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Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
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Others point out that biography writing isn't always balanced, with some accounts staying deliberately apologetic and skipping over less flattering details entirely.
