#biography

I'm an avid biography reader. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#biography #i #reader

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#biography #child #fiction #historical #history

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#face #fiction #her #his #man

Discretion is not the better part of biography. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#biography #discretion #part

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

— Thomas Szasz

#biography #only #psychology

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone. ↗

— Celia Johnson

#anyone #autobiography #because #frank #frank sinatra

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do. ↗

— John McEnroe

#believe #i #i believe #only #you

All autobiography is self-indulgent. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#self-indulgent

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story. ↗

— John Saxon

#asked #autobiography #because #been #couple

December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of this year, then comes a new one. Then, what? No one knows. -- Diary of Bertha Kate Gaddis who passed away 6 months later, age 78, West Lafayette, IN. ↗

— Angie Klink

#educators #narrative #women-s-strength #age