Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
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.
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.