#biography

Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy ↗

— Evan Thomas

#history #life

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

— Joseph Barbera

#attractive #autobiography #dead #most #things

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

— Mark Twain

#biography #buttons #cannot #clothes #himself

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#dressed #good #i #know #mix

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

— Lawrence Welk

#biography #ever #i #me #read

Kill the body and the head will die. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#biography #drugs #humor #dreams

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

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

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#accomplished #biography #comes #forebears #history

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion