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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.

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.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.