Biographies Quote by Larry Ellison

When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!

— Gretchen Rubin

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

— Anthony Bourdain

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at…

— Richard Branson

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me…

— Douglas Preston

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's…

— George Packer

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art…

— Donald Miller

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

Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.

— Volker Ullrich

I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best.…

— Lauren Weisberger

I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of…

— Imelda May

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 teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

— Luke Ford