Contribution Quote by Fred Kaplan

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of…

— Nat Hentoff

“It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography…

— Nathanael West

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

— James McBride

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

— Alfred Nobel

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

— Claire Tomalin

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are…

— Lady Colin Campbell

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real…

— Claire Tomalin

“THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently…

— Ben Jonson

Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story,…

— H. W. Brands

“For all those who keep on asking me when will i get my first royalty cheque: The highest reward for a person's work is…

— Lovely Goyal

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle”

— Carol Tavris