96 Quotes About Biographies

I had lost faith in biography.

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

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

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.