About Quote by Suzan-Lori Parks

When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me…

— Greta Gerwig

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

— Arthur Wing Pinero

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are…

— Margaret Atwood

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half…

— Dawn French

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

— Reeve Carney

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write -…

— Ian Anderson

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory…

— Sefi Atta

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though…

— Richard Hell

The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it…

— Rodney Crowell

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they…

— Norman MacCaig

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

— A. Scott Berg