Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
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It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.
Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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