Biographies Quote by Darcey Steinke

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

— Jacqueline Winspear

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

— Stuart Woods

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

— Thomas Carlyle

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

— William Ellery Channing

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

— Graeme Souness

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do…

— Chick Corea

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among…

— Harold Acton

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“One of the best books I’ve read was George S. Clason’s The Richest Man in Babylon, which offers financial advice in a collection of…

— Sophia Amoruso

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

— Samuel Johnson