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I had lost faith in biography.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Biography Faith Had Lost

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Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Biography Does Feel Happen History Know Letters Like Needs Newspaper Novelist Opposed Reading Really Someone Will Writer

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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

~A. Scott Berg

Topics: Biography Illuminates Interesting Lives Only Think Times I Think

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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

~Aharon Appelfeld

Topics: About Also Become Besides Biography Cannot Carries Central Century Deep Deep Inside End Event Everyone Him Holocaust Inside Israel Lives Many Metaphor Our People Speaking Writing

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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.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Aristocrat Biography Different Family French Immigrant Interpreted Jews Sometimes Upbringing Very Were

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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

Topics: Back Been Biography Busy Go Me Present Stop Them Think Want Well Worry You I Think

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I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

~Alexandra Roach

Topics: Autobiography Biography Breathe Daughter Few Had Her Life Live Margaret Margaret Thatcher Months Myself Read Thatcher Totally

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A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Am Art Been Biography Decided Devote Entire Eventually Having His Impossible Initially Interested Invited Just Just One Kissinger Life Myself Never Nor Official Supreme Why Write Writing Year

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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: About Authors Biography Clever Educated Exercise My Own Narrative Need Own Prove Rather Sacrifice Some Suffer Think Try Whether Worried Would Writing I Think

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When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version.

~Andrew Gower

Topics: Alone Archives Biography Books Creating Did Exist Experts Focus Good Instead Leave Material Playing Point Process Script Somebody Source Stupid Them Version Where Whether Who Would You Your

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