Arthur Quote by Natalie Portman

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

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among…

— Harold Acton

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which…

— Janet Malcolm

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

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

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a…

— Merlin Mann

I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'

— Steve Lukather

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

— Deana J. Driver

Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It…

— Noel Riley Fitch

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.

— Martha MacCallum