Wise Words From Virginia Woolf

When I write, I weave in pieces of my mind and soul. We all do. Our writing is us. Even if you are a 14 year old girl who is writing about zombies. No matter what, we put in little bits of us into our writing. It's because we are writing it, and we only know what we know, so our characters only know what we know. 

We put ourself in our writing, and there is no way to get around it. We are a piece of our writing, and our writing is a piece of us.  Virginia Woolf says it perfectly:

Without realizing it, we take our biggest, darkest secrets and load them onto our characters. Every indescribable feeling we've had, we give them to our characters. We curse them and gift them all at once. They get the good and the bad. That's what great about writing, you can give the best and the worst, and your characters stay with you anyways. :)