Biographies Quote by Matt Bomer

I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of, what is…

— Matt Bomer

I'd done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book…

— Robert Greene

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and…

— Iggy Pop

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

— Ben Elliot

I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and…

— Lainie Kazan

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

— Robert Littell

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read…

— Megan Abbott

If anything, I learned most from being a huge fan of his and watching movies like Annie Hall and Manhattan over and over again…

— Nicole Holofcener

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to…

— Derek Jacobi

In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started…

— Aaron Brookner

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics…

— Fred Savage