Biographies Quote by Dave Barry

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

— David Quammen

First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read Hap and…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

— Martin Lewis Perl

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was…

— James A. Michener

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read…

— Robin Hobb

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history,…

— Norman Spinrad

You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main stories you…

— Dave Filoni

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

— Eoin Macken

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair.…

— Abigail Spencer