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"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
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"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was."
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"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"
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"This is the best biography by me I have ever read."
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"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
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"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
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"I could be accused of glamourising crime, the favorite question on all journalists' lips whenever they ask about anyone writing about such things. The answer to that must be an emphatic 'Yes'. We've come to expect our icons of the criminal world to be larger than life, better than anyone else at foiling the final capture scene. We all love a good thriller ...."
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"I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland."
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"I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies."
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"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
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"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."
Living
"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older."
Truth
"Will the reader turn the page?"
Will
"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."
Critics
"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."
Friendship
"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."
Life
"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."
Man
"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."
Writing
"In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink."
Biography
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