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There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

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My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

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My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

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In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

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I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.

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My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

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I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.

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My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.

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I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

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I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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