#biography

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

— Mark Shields

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

— Pamela Stephenson

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

— Pamela Stephenson

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Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

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There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ↗

— William Trevor

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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

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