#biography

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#autobiography #book #collage #fragments #insane

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#after #anyone #autobiography #dead #i

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

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#biography #forms #game #hunting #like

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#autobiography #other #people #telling #telling the truth

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#black #fact #facts #fiction #fictional

I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #funny

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#history #insisted #intersection #mills #proper

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#biography #death #like #off #own