A Quote by Leslie Caron

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.

Leslie Caron

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Leslie Caron
French - Actress
Born: July 1, 1931

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

Joan Didion

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which is always such a mixed bag of letters, recollections, and other data.

Janet Malcolm

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Stevie Jackson

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

Joseph Brodsky

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Gyles Brandreth

But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.

John Green

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

Jeff Dunham

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Penelope Fitzgerald

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Kitty Kelley

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Lynn Barber

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Clint Eastwood

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

Pamela Stephenson

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