Biographies Quote by Steve Lukather

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

— Deana J. Driver

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

Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human…

— Claire Tomalin

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

— Wole Soyinka

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

— Courtney Barnett

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

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

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair.…

— Abigail Spencer

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

— A. Scott Berg

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

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas…

— Claire Tomalin