96 Quotes About Biographies

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

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

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

Our theology must become biography.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.