Biography Quotes

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

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

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.