“Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“She doesn't get to say much in the official biography —
I believe they are out of wine, etc.,
practical things —
watching with one eye as he goes about the world
calling himself The Son Of Man.”

Anne Carson (1950) Canadian poet

“There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.”

Anthony Trollope book Doctor Thorne

“You are being dishonest if you are not writing about sex in your book. It is very natural and normal. Well, I have earned the name of 'dirty old man' but there is not much sex in my books. What I have written is very serious stuff - biography, history, religious texts, etc.”

Khushwant Singh (1915–2014) Indian novelist and journalist

“The probity in a public life is a must for improvement of country’s economy vis-à-vis the living conditions of common man. To mould the perceptions of students he wrote biographies of three great men.”

D. V. Gundappa (1887–1975) Indian writer

“It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.”

Richard Bentley (1662–1742) English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

“No man is free who cannot control himself.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

“This book is not a biography; it is the confession of every man who struggles. In publishing it I have fulfilled my duty, the duty of a person who struggled much, was embittered in his life,

and had many hopes. I am certain that
every free man who reads this book, so filled as it
is with love, will more than ever before, love
Christ. </center”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ