Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?