96 Quotes About Biographies

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

Biography is the only true history.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.