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“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.”

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Author:Stevie Jackson

“I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.”

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Author:Marie Dressler

“I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.”

Source: It's only me: pieces from a column

“I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.”

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Author:Nancy Horan

“The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.”

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Book:Gossip

Source: Gossip

“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.”

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Author:Joan Didion

“The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.”

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Author:Lindi Ortega

“The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.”

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Author:Christine Quinn

“The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“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.”

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Author:Gustavo Dudamel