I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally.
My books aren't autobiographical.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.
'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.
