Biographies Quote by Robert Caro

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real…

— Claire Tomalin

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

— Wole Soyinka

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

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

— Lee Kuan Yew

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which…

— Janet Malcolm

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas…

— Claire Tomalin

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a…

— Robert Caro

“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.”

— Deana J. Driver

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got…

— Leslie Caron

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