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A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

It's often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in thinking about them. And that's the key.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

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

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.