Art Quote by Stacy Schiff

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

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so…

— Iris Origo

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

— Charles Babbage

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

— Alfred Nobel

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

— A. Scott Berg

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

— Carlos Fuentes

“There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed to paper,…

— Henry Spencer Ashbee

Writing is the indelible fingerprint of my soul on paper.

— Michelle L Buckley

I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or my experiences.…

— Tommy Wiseau

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

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our…

— Eric Metaxas

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

— Michael K. Williams