Because Quote by Claire Tomalin

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

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

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a…

— Edmund White

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real…

— Claire Tomalin

“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known…

— Ira Bruce Nadel

I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all.

— Heidi Ewing

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of…

— Robert Caro

When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with…

— Oscar Hijuelos

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are…

— Lady Colin Campbell

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

— Wole Soyinka