I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Steven Wright

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If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Clint Eastwood

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Rachel Carson

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

V.S. Naipaul

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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

V.S. Naipaul

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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

V.S. Naipaul

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Fernando Pessoa

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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

J. M. Coetzee

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My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Daphne du Maurier

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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Roald Dahl

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Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

James McBride

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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Bernard Malamud

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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity

Bernard Berenson

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History is the autobiography of a madman.

Alexander Herzen

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What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other people's feelings?

Johannes Brahms

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I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography.

John Prine

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I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Steven Wright

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Clint Eastwood

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Rachel Carson

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

V.S. Naipaul

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

V.S. Naipaul

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

V.S. Naipaul

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Fernando Pessoa

J. M. Coetzee

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

Nikos Kazantzakis

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Daphne du Maurier

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Roald Dahl

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

James McBride

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Bernard Malamud

Bernard Berenson

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Alexander Herzen

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other people's feelings?

Johannes Brahms

I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography.

John Prine

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" Quotes and Sayings About biography

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Steven Wright

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Clint Eastwood

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Rachel Carson

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

V.S. Naipaul

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

V.S. Naipaul

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

V.S. Naipaul

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Fernando Pessoa

J. M. Coetzee

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

Nikos Kazantzakis

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Daphne du Maurier

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Roald Dahl

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

James McBride

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Bernard Malamud

Bernard Berenson

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Alexander Herzen

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other people's feelings?

Johannes Brahms

I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography.

John Prine

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