tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839584506001378073.post7291341003915985109..comments2023-10-30T22:39:14.941+11:00Comments on Jonathan Gould, Writer: Everything I write is completely autobiographical - especially the made up bitsJonathan Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169533695637011148noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839584506001378073.post-26228438859382612752015-04-10T19:32:06.396+10:002015-04-10T19:32:06.396+10:00Hi Jim. I like the idea of my stories being painti...Hi Jim. I like the idea of my stories being paintings from my life. Have a good week.Jonathan Gouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06169533695637011148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839584506001378073.post-25062036119076168622015-04-10T11:02:03.546+10:002015-04-10T11:02:03.546+10:00“All fiction is largely autobiographical and much ...“All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.”― P.D. James. She’s not the only one (or the first) to say that but I found her first. Of course everything we write is autobiographical; it comes out of us; it is of us. Once it’s left us then it becomes its own thing. I dislike comparing writing to children but in some respects out books are our kids and our kids are not us but all you’d have to do is spend five minutes in my daughter’s company to see who she takes after and I’m not just talking about her looks. I think the difference with writing, unless we’ve set out to write a memoir of some sort, is that it less of a photograph and more of a painting; you look at it and get an impression of the author. The phrases I use in my books—and in my blogs and comments especially—are the phrases I use in real life. That’s how I talk. You get a flavour of me. And, occasionally, you will get an actual fact or two. But unless you know me well you won’t be able to distinguish fact from fiction. The bottom line is that if I wasn’t the person I am, if I hadn’t lived the life I have, made the mistakes I have I wouldn’t’ve become the writer I am. My books are me. Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com