As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very…

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

— Scott McClanahan

“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.”

— Scott McClanahan

“Many real-world Northwestern endonyms have European origins, such as “Portland,” “Victoria,” “Bellingham,” and “Richland.” To address this phenomenon while also contributing a sense of…

— Sylvester Olson

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

— Kurt Busiek

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

— Johannes Brahms

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

— Fred Kaplan

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

— Antonia Fraser

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive…

— Theodore Dalrymple

All Philosophy is Biography

— Peter J. Carroll

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

— Samuel Smiles

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

— Emmylou Harris

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

— Charles Lindbergh

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

— Joseph Campbell

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In…

— Gertrude B. Elion