Biographies Quote by Charles Wheelan

“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.”

— Deana J. Driver

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

— Smriti Irani

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with…

— Tom Rachman

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

— Bill Paxton

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

— Walter Cronkite

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

— Keshia Chante

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what…

— Michael Eisner

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes

A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were…

— Roz Savage

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

— Courtney Barnett