'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one of the great Hollywood screenwriters.

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

I had lost faith in biography.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses.

Many candidates use a political autobiography to sell their candidacy.

I will surely pen my autobiography.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.