Adult Quote by Charles J. Shields

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

— Philippe Petit

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

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science…

— Daniel Goldstein

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

— Sara Sheridan

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 held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

— Thomas Perry

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

— Walter Isaacson

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so…

— Derek Walcott

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.…

— Robert Darnton

I used to write from the time I was in school, and during college days too.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I…

— Jeffrey Bernard