top of page
"I'm an avid biography reader."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Biography quotes

"Discretion is not the better part of biography."

"I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years."

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

"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"

"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."

"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."

"I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies."

"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
Explore more quotes by Brent Spiner

"I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty."

"And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!"

"I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting."
bottom of page