"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"
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The “we both thought” is doing heavy lifting. It signals unity and consent, a couple presenting a single front against the market’s appetite for contradiction. In celebrity culture, conflict sells; Stephenson offers coherence as a counter-narrative. And the “true one” is an audacious promise, because memoir and biography are never neutral inventories. “True” here means authorized, curated, and litigiously safe - truth as a controlled asset.
Context matters: Stephenson isn’t speaking as a distant publicist. As an actress, she understands performance, persona, and how easily an image becomes a role you’re forced to keep playing. The intent isn’t just to correct the record; it’s to reclaim authorship. The subtext: if you’re going to consume Billy’s life as a story, at least pay for the version we’re selling - the one with our fingerprints on every page.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Stephenson, Pamela. (2026, January 16). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theres-been-a-number-of-erroneous-biographies-134282/
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Stephenson, Pamela. "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." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theres-been-a-number-of-erroneous-biographies-134282/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theres-been-a-number-of-erroneous-biographies-134282/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.






