Quote by Marilyn Miles Conner

“Who’s Norma Jean Mortenson?” “Marilyn Monroe!” “Who’s Marilyn Monroe?” “Sex!”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was…

— Richard Widmark

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her…

— Richard Widmark

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

— Julie Salamon

You probably only know what you've read [about Marilyn Monroe].You didn't know her. The people who talk about her didn't know her either.

— Debbie Reynolds

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.

— Emma Forrest

“Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer? Marilyn Monroe”

— Leslie Braswell

She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary.…

— John Huston

'LIFE Magazine' decided to do a story about a young actress in Hollywood in 1954. And I made the cover. And I remember that…

— Rita Moreno

“Sometimes he'd write my mother's new name under his on a scrap of paper...then, the one that hurt her teeth to see, Mrs. Brock…

— Laura Kasischke