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" A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth. "

" As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. "

" Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. "

" 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

" Biography is one of the new terrors of death. "

" Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia. "

" Biography lends to death a new terror. "

" Biography should be written by an acute enemy. "

" Discretion is not the better part of biography. "

Lytton Strachey

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

Barbara Taylor Bradford

" I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

" I had lost faith in biography. "

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

" I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. "

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

Richard Attenborough

" I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody. "

" I liked Tom Bower's biography of Bernie Ecclestone, the former Formula 1 boss. "

" I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey. "

Stephen McCauley

" I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography. "

" I'm an avid biography reader. "

" In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other. "

Kathryn Harrison

" I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. "

" I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. "

" I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. "

" I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom. "

" It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. "

George Plimpton

" It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in. "

" I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks. "

Douglas Brinkley

" John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign. "

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

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