#biographies

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

— Walter Isaacson

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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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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time. ↗

— Harold Acton

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My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

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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

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At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent. ↗

— Liam Neeson

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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. ↗

— Al Sharpton

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Fact is much more fascinating than fiction. ↗

— Deana J. Driver

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