Care Quote by Ron Chernow

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

— Barry Unsworth

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

— Bruno Tonioli

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the…

— Barbara Tuchman

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

— Walter Isaacson

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around.…

— David McCullough

“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self,…

— Hermione Lee

I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

— Hilary Mantel

For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be…

— Hilary Mantel

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know…

— John Keegan

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

— Orson Welles

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a…

— Nancy Milford

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to…

— William Styron