Biographies Quote by Blake Bailey

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals…

— Paul Theroux

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

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

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which…

— Janet Malcolm

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.

— Martha MacCallum

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas…

— Claire Tomalin

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

— Blake Bailey

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

— Chad Harbach

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

— William Golding