You have a life; make a success of it.
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.