Becoming successful Quote by Michael Eisner

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

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

— Anne Lamott

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

— Lee Kuan Yew

There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.

— David Cottrell

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

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

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

— Charles Wheelan

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

— Marie Dressler

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

— Anonymous

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've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

— Walter Isaacson

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor