I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.
It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.
'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my journey into the prison world. I'm not using myself as any kind of narrative link.
My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
I am not an autobiographical writer.
I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.
