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I'm an avid biography reader.

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

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

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

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

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.

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

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.