Stevie Jackson Quotes

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.

I like to read. Autobiographies.

I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.

Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

It’s terribly important to write your own history before the historians get a crack at it.

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.

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

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

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.