Biography

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

- Dawn French Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

- Derek Walcott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

- Bill Mumy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography

- Stephen Greenblatt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.

- Albert Finney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

- Jonathan Dimbleby Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Merkel's biography does not embody the experience of most women, ... They are concerned with how they can have a family and a job, whether they should stay home for a few years after the birth, or how they can best raise their children.

- Gerhard Schroeder Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is not a biography, ... It's just stories, you know. And the ones I chose to leave out need a lot more detail.

- Cher Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

- George Plimpton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

- John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This isn't really a biography. It's a tragedy.

- Bennett Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

- Barbara Bradford Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He came attached to the case. ... I didn't know much about his biography before I started, and I hadn't read him since I was 20, I suppose. But in the process of research and writing, I found him to be a very admirable and a moral and warmhearted person.

- Julian Barnes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

- Justin Hayward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

- Anita Brookner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

- Edmund White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

- Cilla Black Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

- Katherine Porter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit farfetched. But he's an Irishman, so nothing's too farfetched.

- Frank McCourt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

During Hispanic Heritage Month, Fernandez will host the special four-hour miniseries on the history of Mexico featuring the story of the Aztecs, once the world's mightiest civilization and the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the first massive people's revolt of the 20th century. The programs will air on September 17 18th at 8 PM, ET (Repeats, Oct. 8 9) Additionally, Fernandez will host the biography of Pancho Villa airing September 15th at 7 PM ET. I'm pleased to honor our heritage by joining The History Channel en espanol to bring the history and culture of our people to the U.S. Hispanic market and to America, ... Our history defines and strengthens us. It is important that our children know our roots and that we celebrate our heroes not just during this month, but throughout the year.

- Alejandro Fernandez Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.

- Holly Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

- David H. Donald Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

- Richard Attenborough Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

- John Irving Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Biography tends to tilt history, because every person you are writing about becomes larger than life.

- Douglas Brinkley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes