People are interested in people. They buy biographies; they don't buy studies of presidencies. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.” — Deana J. Driver Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success.… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the… — J. Edwin Orr Copy Share Image
All of Robert Caro's biographies are exceptional, in part because of Caro's fundamental ambivalence about power. He sees its necessity and use… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work. — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
