A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.
I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.
One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.
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.
I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.
I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write their take on me as opposed to just printing what I said, because they're asking similar questions so often, sometimes it just sounds like I'm answering the questions different intentionally.
I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.