Biographies Quote by Iris Origo

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

— Italo Calvino

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role…

— Jesse Eisenberg

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

— Claire Tomalin

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

— Anonymous

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty,…

— Shirley MacLaine

“Don't be fool enough to think you can know a person's character after a few moments of observation. You can't. You have no idea…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

— Pearl Cleage

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's…

— Suzan-Lori Parks