Quotes about biography

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"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."

West, Rebecca on biography

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"Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."

Wilde, Oscar on biography

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"Biography is a higher gossip."

Winder, Robert on biography

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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

Woolf, Virginia on biography

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"There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer."

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing on biography