Accurate Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“The facts. The facts were difficult to see clearly. The facts were like the view from our porch—shadows in darkness and shapes you could…

— Megan Miranda

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are…

— Margaret Atwood

I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes

Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.

— Demetri Martin

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

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

— Antonia Fraser

I would like to write my biography sometime. I love to write. I could write for weeks and weeks, maybe say nothing but just…

— Guy Lafleur

Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A…

— T.C. Boyle

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

— Charles Babbage

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth…

— Fernando Pessoa

I was interested in the ways we can write biography. When you're first starting to write about your own life it feels so shapeless…

— Sarah Gerard