Biographies Quote by Miguel Ferrer

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of…

— Sam Shepard

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

— Peter Carey

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that…

— Olga Tokarczuk

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

— China Mieville

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of…

— Terry Pratchett

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

— Dan Chaon

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably…

— D. B. Weiss

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part…

— Adam Brody

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

— Tomi Adeyemi

For every character, I think about who they are, their story, what they are, and who they were before their game started. What was…

— Tim Schafer

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