Biographies Quote by Alfred Nobel

“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.”

— Deana J. Driver

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are…

— Lady Colin Campbell

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

— Wole Soyinka

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got…

— Leslie Caron

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

— Charles Babbage

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed…

— Victoria Wilson

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of…

— John Burnside

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb