“Biography lends to death a new terror.” — Oscar Wilde
“The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.” — Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.” — Jonathan Coe
“Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.” — Unknown
“I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.” — Richard Attenborough
“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
“I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.” — Antonia Fraser
“Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.” — Todd Gitlin
“I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.” — Jonathan Dimbleby
“I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.” — Kathy Griffin
“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
“King Juan Carlos would be worthy of a full biography as a major player in his country's history. Alas, my Spanish is not good enough to offer myself!” — Antonia Fraser