Biographies Quote by Stevie Jackson

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

— Courtney Barnett

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

— Richard Attenborough

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

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

I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in…

— Jill Tweedie

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

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

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

For some reason, I tend to take on the stuff that people are really passionate about. If you make a list of people you…

— Noah Hawley

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

— Rachel Holmes

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