The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
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.
There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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