Person Quote by Lady Colin Campbell

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are…

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

— Iris Origo

Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It…

— Noel Riley Fitch

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

— Arthur Balfour

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

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

“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

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 try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing…

— Russell Freedman

You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If…

— Abraham A. Ribicoff

It should go without saying, of course, that anything a journalist writes about any person, public or private, must have a verifiable basis in…

— Norah Vincent