Biographical Exploration Quotes

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

I would love to make a documentary on my father, Mahesh Bhatt. What is interesting about Bhatt sahab is that he became more interesting personality after he left work.

It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' and wanted to know more about her - who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.

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

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?