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I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

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

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.