“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.” – Mark Twain

“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.” – Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.” – Walter Lippmann

“Always live your life with your biography in mind.” – Marisha Pessl

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.