Biographies Quote by Michael Ondaatje

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent…

— Joan Didion

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

— Paul Auster

I rarely read children's books.

— Beverly Cleary

A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to the extent…

— Russell Freedman

I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school,…

— Barry McGee

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

— Courtney Barnett

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— C. S. Lewis

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— Anonymous

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

— Chris Van Allsburg

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

— Mark Haddon

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg

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