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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

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.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

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.

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

I write about my life.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

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

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.