Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.