Biographies Quote by Leslie Caron

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

— Wole Soyinka

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

“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.”

— Deana J. Driver

I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'

— Steve Lukather

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

— Courtney Barnett

I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.

— David Mandel

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery…

— Carolyn Wells

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of…

— Robert Caro

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

I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in…

— Jill Tweedie

I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.

— Martha MacCallum

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know…

— Mary Cable