Achievement Quote by Leon Edel

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg

I believe no matter how much you research a person's life. No matter how long you spend, the person always remains a mystery. I…

— Patricia Bosworth

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 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

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known…

— Ira Bruce Nadel

Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you find…

— Russell Freedman

Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of…

— Janet Malcolm

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are…

— Margaret Atwood

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

— Tom Stoppard

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on…

— Clint Eastwood