Biographies Quote by Christine Quinn

My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.

— Celeste Ng

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for…

— Malala Yousafzai

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended…

— D. T. Max

I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school,…

— Barry McGee

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed…

— Victoria Wilson

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

— Ben Elliot

When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I…

— Pixie Lott

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

— Richard Rhodes

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

— Marie Dressler

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got…

— Leslie Caron

Eleanor Roosevelt's very helpful to a lot of children who cannot speak French, who do not write well. And Marie Souvestre is fierce. She…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

— Luke Ford