Essentials Quote by Elena Ferrante

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

— William Golding

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

— A. Scott Berg

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

— Blake Bailey

[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so…

— Iris Origo

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

— Marya Hornbacher

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

— Isaac Asimov

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long…

— Peter Morgan

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

— Rachel Holmes