Biographies Quotes

July 7, 1986: Montreux It is only now that I realize the importance of a biography. I mean I always ...

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in ...

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them withou...

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceil...

I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never re...