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I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.

Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.

I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.