“I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's l...” — Susan Isaacs Quote

“I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.”

“My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.”

“Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.”

“I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put my interest in the narrative writing of biographies.”

“The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.”

“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”