I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it. — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work. — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him. — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink,… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time. — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Everyone is an autobiographer nowadays, it’s like everyone is actively writing their own biography all the time,” — James Wallman Copy Share Image
[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
I don't put myself into the category of 'rock star writing his biography.' That's because we live our lives by falling into… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
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