I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
My work is intensely personal.
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.