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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

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've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

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.

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

I don't think of myself as a writer.