Biographies Quote by Anthony Powell

“People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and…

— Anthony Powell

I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe…

— Jeff Bezos

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who…

— Arthur Golden

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

— Jeff Bezos

I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little…

— Anne Lamott

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

— Will Rogers

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want…

— Lorrie Moore

. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think…

— Arthur Miller

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen…

— David Hare

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary…

— Amos Oz

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent…

— Maria Semple

“My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel…

— Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio