I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing...
If my career continues along its current arc people will probably look at me...
I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the...
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes...
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I...
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the...
At the risk of appearing disingenuous I don't really think of myself as...
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I...
If you work at comedy too laboriously you can kill what's funny in the joke.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for...
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober he was mostly in...
To the former child migrants who came to Australia from a home far away led...
We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going what I'm doing.
You know you go home and you try on a new mascara and I guess a male CEO...
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you...
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward...
When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home the only...
After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and...