#biography

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

#i #i think #imagination #imagined #interesting

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#autobiography #i #i write #life #my life

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#biography #impossible #matter #objectivity #perfect

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#decide #i #may #point #where

Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones. ↗

— Justin Allison

#automotive #social-history #life

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #biography #had #heart #hearts

George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with ↗

— Justin Spring

#gay #homosexual #kinsey #secret-historian #tattoo

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#mock-biography #science-fiction #humor

Autobiography is the most objective genre of historical fiction there is. I would consider it a scientific method, but as it doesn’t involve making hypotheses it is far more accurate. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #objectivity #science #funny

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography! ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#anything #biography #even #having #his