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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
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.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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