532 Quotes About Biography

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

He was one of the first to treat these people as serious American writers, ... Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac.

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

We might have had our biological families, but this was our extended family. Everyone was a brother or a sister. She was our mother.

It wasn't until (Dew) wrote the biography that we really found out a lot about what he had been doing. We just never felt that what he was doing was particularly difficult or meaningful. We were just normal.

I felt that Desmond was the last major soloist of his era about whom there hadn't been a biography,

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.

The Lindbergh biography is fantastic. I just read it. And I loved it.