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Biography Quotes
On writing a life down.
These quotes weigh biography against anecdote and memory, including the view that biography 'relying upon individuals' notorious memories' can blur into fiction even while labeled nonfiction, a theme related to Memory quotes.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.
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My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
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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.
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A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
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I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
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The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
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