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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
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.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
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.
I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.