About Quote by Lady Colin Campbell

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

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

— Richard Rhodes

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

— Iris Origo

If you're writing an impartial proper biography, you speak to everyone around them who really know them, you do not need, unless you're a…

— Lady Colin Campbell

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

— Wole Soyinka

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 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

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

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas…

— Claire Tomalin

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

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

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul