Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
John Arbuthnot
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Arthur Balfour
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Eric Bentley
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
A. Scott Berg
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
Cilla Black
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
John Kenneth Galbraith
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
Emmylou Harris
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul