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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'
I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.
I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.
I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.
Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.
I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.
When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.
My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.
There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.
I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.
I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.
biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of actors and famous people.
All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.
My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them.
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.
I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.
My father was a fun-loving person, not the evil, sadistic, macho, woman-hating guy that comes through in some of the biographies.
I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.
I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood icons.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.
