Art Quote by Paul Bailey

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

— Orson Welles

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

— A. Scott Berg

There is no history; only biography.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is properly no history, only biography.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Iris Origo

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

— David Tang

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

— B. Traven

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

— Peter Morgan

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

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

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