“When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.” ThinkingMenMindWellsHeartLittlesGivenHeavenSpaceGriefSorrowPagesDietsGreat MenDeniedBlankSailBiographiesScarce Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.” FirstsSeemsInterestingChildhoodPagesThirtyBiographiesSkip Author:Michael Ondaatje
“We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.” SometimesBeautifulDeathNumbersJudgingPagesLengthBiographiesSymphonyRichness Author:Viktor E. Frankl
“I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.” WantWritingHurtTypePagesBiographiesHurts Someone Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel