Biographies Quote by Cilla Black

I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

— Nick Saban

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

— Clifton Fadiman

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 had lost faith in biography.

— A. N. Wilson

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write it as…

— Melissa Febos

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of…

— George Bernard Shaw

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

— Terrell Owens

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

— Orson Welles

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may…

— Goldie Hawn

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh,…

— Stacy Schiff

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them.…

— Dave Barry