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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.