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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.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

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.

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.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

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.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.