Collecting Biographies Gifts

Biography: Liz Truss Book

'I want a scurrilous biography. If it was good enough for Getty, it will be good enough for me.'

'I've just read my autobiography, now there is nothing to read.'

"And that's General Ambrose T. Spangler. He died in the Great Mustache Fire of 1897."

'You want a quick read? How about this one: 'Memoirs of an Amnesic'?'

What do you say we team up to star in a sequel to "The Elephant Man" called "The Wolverine Boy"? !

'Come on Jill, they say the water's well good.'

It's an autobiography of a guy who spent his whole life trying to get his first @#^& book published. Editor.

"It's Doris Kearns Goodwin. Is there anything we'd like to know about the Presidency?"

"Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington should write a book about you!"

'It's Dick Cheney's biography.'

"Gracie, Frida Kahlo was a controversial figure... She was a strong independent woman...but she also had the courage to be different and unique."

"My Aunt Agatha – feminist, civil rights activist, philanthropist, sound engineer for 'Cheap Trick at Budokan.'"

'Sounds like it'll flop.'

"I remembered that time you said you wished you had a biographer."

"It's my autobiography. I call it, 'I Married Her For Her Money, And Other Gross Miscalculations'."

Writers wait in their area of expertise.

'I'm studying how other geniuses handled creative blocks.'

Biographies. Don Rickles for Dummies

"I feel bad about Nora Ephron's neck."

Romy Schneider

'That's right...his appendix...and it's pure dynamite! Don't you see? It'll be the ultimate insider celebrity memoir!'

Rudy, I loved your memoir. It was fascinating. The way you overcame huge odds to invent the computer. How you went on to protect us from government surveillance. You know none of it's true. The way you swore yourself to humility. People so want to believe a good story.

"You're okay for a guy who comes across as such a jerk in his biopic."

'One of my forebears.'

'I've read your manuscript-it's a miracle you survived all the booze, sex, and drugs while on your world tour, but are you sure you want it published during an election year senator?'

Autobiographies - Fiction and Non-fiction.

'I don't remember ever having a good memory.'

Biography - Authorized/Unauthorized.

Cat reading Rommel biography.

"My name is Jose Hernandez, and my story begins when my parents moved from Mexico to the United States to work the fields. I would find my own special calling."

"Pecos Bildungsroman"

'Tom's always been the black sheep of the family.'

"My great-uncle Octavio always wore his hat in the house. That way, if bad company knocked on the door, he could say he was just leaving."

After months of writer's block, the great man's biographer finally decides how to end the book.