But everything of value about me is in my books.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.