About Quote by Richard Rhodes

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

— Iris Origo

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are…

— Lady Colin Campbell

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

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed…

— Victoria Wilson

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

— Wole Soyinka

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended…

— D. T. Max

Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years - particularly…

— John Larroquette

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

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

— Arthur Wing Pinero

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

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 would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

— Philippe Petit