I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.