Biographies Quote by Claire Tomalin

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

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

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book…

— Joan Collins

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

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

— Diana Vreeland

Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book.

— Sudha Chandran

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

— David Cassidy

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them…

— Ruskin Bond