I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing...
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.
About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just...
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.
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a...
My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was...
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution...
If you want to have a relationship at some point you have to let yourself...
You know I think that President Obama is a person who has a great...
I feel like in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge the woman is...
I would stay on but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that...
I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be...
I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every...