Rebbetzin Zaks, a”h, youngest daughter of the Chofetz Chaim, zt”l, would often say, “Better that people should study my father’s seforim and not spend so much time studying the stories about him”.
Ha that’s funny the chafetz Chaim walked into his daughters house and she asked him if he liked her new wall paper he said “I see bletter gemara “(because you gotta work and take off from Learning to get money for wallpaper)