#biography

A bellyful is a bellyful. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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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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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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

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There is no there there. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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