If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
I write a lot about myself.
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.
I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.
Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
Writers don't write about people they know. They write what they know about people.