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

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

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

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

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.

I had lost faith in biography.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.