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Biography And Autobiography Quotes By V.S. Naipaul

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V.S. Naipaul

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By A. Somebody

Monotony is the only reward of the cautious — A. Somebody

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Marilyn Vos Savant

The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By James Patterson

To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind. — James Patterson

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Kathy Griffin

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

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Christopher Buckley

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal. — Christopher Buckley

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By George Vecsey

When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read. — George Vecsey

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Fran Drescher

Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for their flaws as well as their attributes. Turn to them for their strengths, what good stuff they can bring to your life, and forget about the rest. To ask for more only sets you up for failure. — Fran Drescher

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Thomas Szasz

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. — Thomas Szasz

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Fay Weldon

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

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Demetri Martin

Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. — Demetri Martin

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Robert Dessaix

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing. — Robert Dessaix

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Boris Pasternak

The poet gives his whole life such a voluntarily steep incline that it is impossible for it to exist in the vertical line of biography where we expect to meet it. It is not to be found under his own name and must be sought under those of others, in the biographical columns of his followers. The more self-contained the individuality from which the life derives, the more collective, without any figurative speaking, is its story. — Boris Pasternak

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Anonymous

What affects the ear and the eye has something to do with what the mind perceives; grimaces and smiles betray the mind's moods and bodily castigations lead, it is hoped, to moral improvement. But the actual transactions between the episodes of the private history ancTthose of the public history remain mysterious, since by definition they can belong to neither series. They could not be reported among the happenings described in a person's autobiography of his inner life, but nor could they be reported among those described in some one else's biography of that person's overt career. They can be inspected neither by introspection nor by laboratory experiment. They are theoretical shuttlecocks which are forever being bandied from the physiologist back to the psychologist and from the psychologist back to the physiologist. — Anonymous

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Alexandra Roach

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.' — Alexandra Roach

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Carlos Fuentes

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. — Carlos Fuentes

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Michael Palin

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me. — Michael Palin

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Linda Simon

Biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Theodor Haecker

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography. — Theodor Haecker

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Rick Barnett

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils. — Rick Barnett

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Graham Greene

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. — Graham Greene

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Paul Murray Kendall

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it. — Paul Murray Kendall

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By William Golding

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it. — William Golding

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Carolyn Wells

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. — Carolyn Wells

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

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? — Henry David Thoreau

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Kate Fleetwood

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. — Kate Fleetwood

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By H.G.Wells

As mankind 'matures,' as it becomes more possible to be frank in the scrutiny of the self and others and in the publication of one's findings, biography and autobiography will take the place of fiction for the investigation and discussion of character. — H.G.Wells

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Rick Barnett

The features of character are carved out of adversity. — Rick Barnett

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By John Dominic Crossan

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography. — John Dominic Crossan

Biography And Autobiography Quotes By Steve Martin

In a sense, this book is not an autobiography but a biography, because I am writing about someone I used to know. Yes, these events are true, yet sometimes they seemed to have happened to someone else, and I often felt like a curious onlooker or someone trying to remember a dream. I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years. — Steve Martin