Top Biography Quotes

  • The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed. – Thornton Wilder

    The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.– Thornton Wilder

  • A good tanto is a nasty thing, and when the point entered a human neck, it was like the last period in a biography. – Ed Kovacs

    A good tanto is a nasty thing, and when the point entered a human neck, it was like the last period in a biography.– Ed Kovacs

  • This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography. – Sarah Hall

    This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography.– Sarah Hall

  • The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969] – Vladimir Nabokov

    The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969]– Vladimir Nabokov

  • But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit. – Mordecai Richler

    But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.– Mordecai Richler

  • Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he’d never lived. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn

    Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he’d never lived.– Carlos Ruiz Zafn

  • A bookshelf is a biography written by others. – Kat Lehmann

    A bookshelf is a biography written by others.– Kat Lehmann

  • Reading an author’s Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience. – Suzy Davies

    Reading an author’s Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience.– Suzy Davies

  • I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory. – Anne Spollen

    I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.– Anne Spollen

  • Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography. – Amit Kalantri

    Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.– Amit Kalantri