I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick… — John Green Copy Share Image
I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess.… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read.… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water,… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental… — Carolyn Merchant Copy Share Image
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
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