Beckett Quote by John Larroquette

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

— Ben Elliot

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for…

— Rick Perlstein

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

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

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

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are…

— Lady Colin Campbell

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor

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

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always…

— Rachel Holmes

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from…

— Thomas Mallon

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

— Marie Dressler

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