Biographies Quote by Arthur Wing Pinero

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

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half…

— Dawn French

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

— Wole Soyinka

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 never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

— Iris Origo

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

— David Cassidy

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though…

— Richard Hell