“After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”
Cynthia Ozick
“The number of presidential biographies that make it on [bestseller lists] is astonishing. My Kennedy book [published in 2003] was on there for eight weeks. I'm an academic; I've never had anything like that before.”
Robert Dallek
“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography”
Oscar Wilde
“There is properly no history; only biography”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Biography lends to death a new terror.”
“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written”
Mark Twain
“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
Louis L'Amour
