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I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

I write about my life.

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.