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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him.
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!
I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.