Biographies Quote by Johannes Brahms

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 feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived,…

— Alison Weir

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

— Iris Origo

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

— Alix Kates Shulman

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work.…

— Rebecca West

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever…

— Scott Lynch

If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it's perfectly legitimate to play with known historical characters and events,…

— Diana Gabaldon

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

— Arthur Wing Pinero

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a…

— Aldous Huxley

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest…

— Robert Caro

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor