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

I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

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

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

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

I've lost my faith in science.

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.

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.