Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. – Oscar Wilde The Critic as Artist
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he’s a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he’s a novel. – James McBride
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn’t tell it like it was. – Cilla Black
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. – George Plimpton
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. – Mark Twain
I read more books for research purposes, whether it’s a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. – Jim C. Hines
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. – Philip Guedalla
Mills insisted that a sociologist’s proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. – Todd Gitlin