Believe Quote by Robert Caro

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

All history is biography.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Biography is the best form of history.

— Josh Billings

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on…

— Philip Guedalla

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it…

— Daniel Aaron

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the…

— Robert Hall

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a…

— Saul David