Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.” — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
“If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to… — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
“Deep down we all know that freedom is a choice, yet so many of us don’t feel that truth.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
“She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one,… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism,… — Sarah Jane Butfield Copy Share Image
I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be… — Terry Lee Rioux Copy Share Image
I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
“I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
“Matthews' shout of treason in the House was no random outburst of lunacy, but the last act in an astonishing adventure: one… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
I don't care about popularity or on how many numbers a blogger can have or how long each word exist. Because it's… — Gien Caytuna Copy Share Image
“From his example in this respect, I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“River smiled sweetly at his tormentors and told them, "If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me… — Gavin Edwards Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
“Schools had let out early and most businesses were closed in anticipation of the storm. My last ride dropped me off in… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God that you never experience what some of the… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout act that ever was in the history… — Buster Keaton Copy Share Image
“It was the economy that troubled most people prior to World War II. Europe, especially Germany, was dealing with a deep worldwide… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
