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Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

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

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

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.