Biographies Quotes

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

Zig Ziglar

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

Richard Branson

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I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Richard C. Armitage

About Also Biographies Close

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Robert Caro

Any Being Biographies Book

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

Ronald Frame

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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

Varley O'Connor

Biographies Deeper Fact Facts

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.

Seth Grahame-Smith

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

Seth Grahame-Smith

Always Biographies Enjoyed History

Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.

Shirley Temple

Been Biographies Claim Known

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity!

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'

Stacy Schiff

About Back Biographies Cleopatra

I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'

Steve Lukather

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I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

Susan Isaacs

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There's so much information out there. There are written biographies of Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, there are interviews, and we have had the benefit of meeting these players. There's a physical and psychological aspect, and combining these two is what will help '83' connect with the millenials and cricket lovers.

Tahir Raj Bhasin

Aspect Benefit Biographies Combining

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Walter Lippmann

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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

Walter Isaacson

About Abundance Always Biographies

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Walter Isaacson

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