Arbitrary Quote by Edmund White

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

— Arthur Wing Pinero

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

— Ranbir Kapoor

“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.”

— Lev Shestov

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always…

— Rachel Holmes

When I sit down with my team before an engagement, sometimes they are horrified as I say I don't want to read the biographical…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

“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

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

— Nicola Cornick

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

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so,…

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Peter Ackroyd

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the…

— Rebecca West

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

— William Golding