Biographies Quote by Lynn Barber

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

— Deana J. Driver

I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.

— Nancy Jo Sales

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as…

— Tom Brokaw

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes…

— Anthony Powell

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

— Scott Pelley

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

— Walter Isaacson

I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur, Marvin Gaye…

— Michael Eric Dyson

What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.

— Jason Schwartzman

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

— Adam McKay

“Don’t just make your life a documentary of compromised relationships rather live notorious, fearless and scandalous life to be part of others biographies.”

— AnkitMishra

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our…

— Eric Metaxas

“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they can-out of…

— Peter Mendelsund