Appearance Quote by Walter Savage Landor

With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them…

— Heather Graham Pozzessere

Biography is the best form of history.

— Josh Billings

I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it always has…

— Glenn Close

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for…

— Rick Perlstein

Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted,…

— Sara Sheridan

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

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

— Jesse Ventura

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the…

— Robert Hall

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader…

— Louis L'Amour

“We should be familiar with the great histories, the great biographies. We should be familiar with the great success stories, the great love stories,…

— Sterling W. Sill