Biographies Quote by Michael Holroyd

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

— Thomas Carlyle

Biography is the best form of history.

— Josh Billings

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

— Antonia Fraser

All history is biography.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

— Fred Kaplan

“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.”

— Deana J. Driver

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

— A. S. Byatt

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

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

Let's give the historians something to write about

— Propertius

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

— Henry Ward Beecher