Barbara Quote by Victoria Wilson

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

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

— Walter Isaacson

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

— Philippe Petit

I'm an avid biography reader.

— Brent Spiner

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed…

— Fred Kaplan

I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go…

— Kitty Kelley

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

— Barton Gellman