Biographies Quote by Pamela Stephenson

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

— B. Traven

“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

“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

people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

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

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

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

— A. Scott Berg

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

— Peter Morgan

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

— Mark Twain

Being an actress, it's hard to publish things without people thinking everything is autobiographical.

— Emma Roberts