#biography

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. ↗

— Boris Becker

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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. ↗

— Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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

— V. S. Naipaul

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After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. ↗

— Taryn Manning

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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. ↗

— John Irving

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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

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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. ↗

— Philip Roth

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An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

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

— Mark Shields

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