

For writers, whose daily business is making things up, the truest experience may be one they have imagined. How complex a task it is to write the biography of a writer.

‘Yes, that’s a beautiful question Robert, because the work is the biography.’ ‘You wouldn’t read a biography of a writer, you would read the work?’ But as I never do want to write anything about myself, no autobiography.’ An autobiography would be an inner statement, how one grew within, the hopes, the difficulties, the aims. ‘No, being born, going to school, having measles, being married or not wouldn’t really be an autobiography for me.

‘You wouldn’t believe in writing an autobiography?’ ‘Oh, we’re onto that kind of question are we?’
