Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both..
I'm an avid biography reader..
Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history..
At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to material….
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose….
When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%..
I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument..
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property w….
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially..
I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there..
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..
I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls..
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps..
Biography should be written by an acute enemy..
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he c….
The man who walks with Henslow..
And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing….
I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending..
Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography..
On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them..
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within i….