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I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Writing, Fiction, Biographies
Elizabeth Gaskell (2009). “The Life of Charlotte Brontë”, p.10, OUP Oxford
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.