About Quote by Claire Tomalin

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

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 like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

— Courtney Barnett

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you find…

— Russell Freedman

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they…

— Jane Smiley

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives…

— Samuel Johnson

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

— Rachel Holmes

“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 got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a…

— Ann Wroe