Picasso was an awful man. I don't think you have to love your subject--initially you shouldn't--but writing a biography is like picking a roommate. After all you're going to be with that person every day, maybe for years, and why subject yourself to someone you have no respect for, or outright don't like?
David McCullough, The Paris Review, Fall 1999
David McCullough, The Paris Review, Fall 1999
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