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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

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.