It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.
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You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.
I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.
I think of myself as a storyteller.
I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.
Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.
Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.
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