My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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.
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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.
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.