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

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.