Because Quote by Courtney Barnett

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

— Nancy Horan

I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true -…

— Stevie Jackson

I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in…

— Jill Tweedie

The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it…

— Lindi Ortega

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages…

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

— Marie Dressler

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

— Chris Van Allsburg

I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those…

— Jack W. Szostak

In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped…

— John Green