Biographies Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Richard Rhodes

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

— Iris Origo

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

— Jose Rizal

Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years - particularly…

— John Larroquette

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

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

— Alfred de Vigny

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Biography is the best form of history.

— Josh Billings