Biographies Quote by Antonia Fraser

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

— Fred Kaplan

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

— Thomas Carlyle

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the…

— Barbara Tuchman

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always…

— Rachel Holmes

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

— A. S. Byatt

With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them…

— Heather Graham Pozzessere

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our…

— Eric Metaxas

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

— Peter Morgan

History is filled with fictional people.

— Anonymous

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James