Cramps Quote by Yuriy Tarnawsky

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

— Walter Isaacson

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

— Elena Ferrante

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long…

— Peter Morgan

My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.

— Janet Malcolm

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

— A. Scott Berg

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a…

— Ann Wroe

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

— Ann Patchett

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real…

— Claire Tomalin

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed…

— Victoria Wilson

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

— Joel Edgerton