"The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it"
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Her intent feels less like cynicism than a practical note about storytelling in the age of self-mythology. People in jail, especially those caught in a sensational case, are incentivized to publish: to humanize themselves, to re-litigate their choices, to settle scores, to influence appeals, to shape how their kids and the public will remember them. “Skewed” lands as a gentle indictment; she’s not calling them liars outright, she’s clocking the subtle ways a narrator can tilt facts without breaking them.
The context is the collision of true crime culture and celebrity memoir logic: audiences crave “their side,” publishers reward a gripping voice, and a book becomes a proxy trial conducted in public. By stressing “the whole family,” Moreau also flags what these first-person accounts often eclipse: the collateral characters who don’t get to author a version that sells. The line works because it treats narrative not as revelation, but as leverage.
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Moreau, Marguerite. "The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-story-follows-the-whole-family-but-pretty-82102/.
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"The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-story-follows-the-whole-family-but-pretty-82102/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
