#biographies

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#correct #errors #i #interested #like

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. ↗

— Lynn Barber

#biographies #human #human race #interviews #like

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#books #celebrities #equality #information #knowledge

Fact is much more fascinating than fiction. ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#non-fiction-books-inspirational #inspirational

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#non-fiction-books #non-fiction-books-inspirational #writers-on-writing #writing #writing-advice

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ↗

— Mark Twain

#biography #buttons #cannot #clothes #himself

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. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#biographies #called #find #got #hate

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#negative #portray #side #some #western

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#books #cannot #completely #different #different subjects

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. ↗

— Meg White

#autobiographies #biggest #find #i #idols