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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.

Nov 07, 2020

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

Care
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Nov 07, 2020

I always write authors after I read their books. I've been doing it for years. I write a formal letter and send it to them in care of their agent. My mother always taught us to write thank you notes, and if an author puts themselves out there, they like to hear that their book connected with someone.

Joke
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not the comedy police, but you watch a movie, and everyone's laughing, and then you shake it out, and you realize, 'There's no joke there!'

Conference
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Nov 07, 2020

I attended TED in 2007 and 2008, the last two years the conference was held in Monterey.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

Mediocrity
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Nov 07, 2020

If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.

Pain
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Nov 07, 2020

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Learned
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Nov 07, 2020

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Nov 07, 2020

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

Home
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Nov 07, 2020

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

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