Close Quote by Sarah Bradford

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

— Peter Morgan

I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing…

— Russell Freedman

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at…

— Paul Bailey

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

— George Bernard Shaw

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

— Ron Chernow

I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience. The interchange…

— Tom Robbins

I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their…

— David McCullough

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

— A. Scott Berg

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on…

— Clint Eastwood

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

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's…

— Suzan-Lori Parks