Biographies Quote by Richard Attenborough

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

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

— A. Scott Berg

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a…

— Ann Wroe

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

— Courtney Barnett

I'm an avid biography reader.

— Brent Spiner

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 hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Walter Isaacson

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what…

— Alice Mattison

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

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

— Richard Rhodes

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.

— Andy Daly