#biography

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting… ↗

— Mary MacLane

#selfishness #biography

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#biography

I want someone to follow me through life and organize the material enough to make it watchable. It will be a lot harder than writing an autobiography, since I'll have to convey my introspection by looking really good. ↗

— Bauvard

#documentary #entertainment #funny #humor #life

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#biography #good #volume #worth

This is the best biography by me I have ever read. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#biography #ever #i #me #read

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#biography #days #demise #far #his

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. ↗

— Rebecca West

#affairs #anybody #biography #considers #difficult

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#biography #even #fiction #history #literature

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#because #become #i #left #privacy