“It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.” WritingMeanMatterLiteratureFictionNovelStreetsConversationNo Matter WhatAutobiographyBiographiesDetectivesDetective Fiction Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante
“I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.” ReadingNovelWideRangeBiographiesThrillersLove Of Reading Author:Bruno Tonioli
“People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.” PeopleThinkingCan DoCasesNovelHappenedCircumstancesMemoirReverseBiographies Book:Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time Source: Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time
“Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.” StoriesNovelBillsClintonShort StoryBiographiesNewts Author:James McBride
“Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.” NovelBiographiesEmbarrassmentOffspringUnwanted Author:Michael Holroyd
“A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.” TogetherWatchesNovelTvsSeriesBiographiesTv Series Author:Darcey Steinke
“Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveInterestingNovelBiographiesRecreationMake Believe Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non - fiction - histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.” MaySoundFictionNovelStrangeResearchAncientBiographiesTranslationsNon Fiction Author:Dan Brown
“Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.” BookNovelTestsBiographiesGreat BookTest Of Time Author:David McCullough
“When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say "This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln" whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say "This is a historical novel."” WarNovelGoneImagineResearchHistoricalCivil WarAccurateImagine ThatEntitledBiographiesSuppositionHistorical Novels Author:Nicholas Meyer
“I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.” MenWantJoyReadingNovelInformationMen And WomenLife ChangingMy TimeBiographiesFactual Book:Inspiration from the Top Source: Inspiration from the Top
“Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension.” PeopleKnowsWantBookReadingGoalRealizingNovelTypeReaderPicksResponseConfusionDislikeBiographiesEssaysVaryComprehension Author:Sergio Chejfec
“I very comprehensively studied Irving Thalberg and his biographies. He's who [Scott] Fitzgerald roughly modeled the character after. He worked for him, as a writer, when he was at MGM. And, of course, I revisited the novel and the politics of MGM and the studio system at the time and familiarized myself with the world. There was a great deal of physical and literary work that went into it.” WorldCharacterCoursesDealsNovelStudiosBiographiesMgmLiterary WorksScott Fitzgerald Author:Matt Bomer
“Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. The only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. Clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of Clarissa and a partial biography of Lovelace. In other words, it doesn't follow Lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.” SometimesWholeDifferencesRolesNovelExampleGravesRangeTomsBiographiesCradleRobinson Crusoe Author:William Golding
“However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.” NovelDisguiseBiographies Author:William Golding
“Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.” MenWellsNovelPaperPretendingAutobiographyBiographies Author:William Golding