#biography

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was. ↗

— Cilla Black

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. ↗

— Joan Collins

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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Every artist writes his own autobiography. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me. ↗

— Albert Finney

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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

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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

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