Attention Quote by Robert Hall

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Rachel Holmes

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

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

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study.…

— Horace Mann

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest…

— Robert Caro

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

— A. Scott Berg

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

— Thomas Carlyle

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives…

— Samuel Johnson

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

— Blake Bailey

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended…

— D. T. Max