Biographies Quote by Marie Dressler

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

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

— Fred Kaplan

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

— A. S. Byatt

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

— Luke Ford

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

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

— Wole Soyinka

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

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever…

— Scott Lynch

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

— David Cassidy

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

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

— Deana J. Driver

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes