Biographies Quote by Kitty Kelley

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when…

— Eva Mendes

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

— Marie Dressler

I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the…

— Anna Wintour

Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years - particularly…

— John Larroquette

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

— Walter Isaacson

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary…

— Langston Hughes

There are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I used to…

— Sandra Cisneros

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a…

— Aldous Huxley

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

I was influenced at an early age by Gandhi, and I have read many biographies of him. I have been greatly influenced in the…

— Mary Robinson