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Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all.
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem.
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.
Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.
I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.