Quote by Geoffrey Wall

“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which…

— Jonathan Swift

“The historian is an indissoluble part of his history, as the poet is of his poem, as the shadowy biographer is of his subject's…

— A.S. Byatt

“A biography should be faithful to the truth. I do not believe that a biography of a man should be all praises, it should…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer…

— Angela Carter

“The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.”

— Thomas Hardy

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

— Victoria Glendinning

“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done…

— Hermann Hesse

“There is no praise or criticism that is a reliable truth. Only the experience of writing a book is reliable.”

— Anonymous

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

— Sara Sheridan

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis