Biography Quotes
On writing a life down.
These quotes weigh biography against anecdote and memory, including the view that biography 'relying upon individuals' notorious memories' can blur into fiction even while labeled nonfiction, a theme related to Memory quotes.
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.
Identity Quotes
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
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.
Legacy Quotes
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
Life Quotes
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Memory Quotes
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
