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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Mad About You' fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020