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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
- Consider
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and forth often feels like whiplash.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never quite know how to fill that anxious, semi-wasted time before a midday flight home.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this notion of women's bodies being out of control - so out of control that men don't understand it at all.
- Fearless
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood icons.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm ashamed how little science fiction I've read.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an insomniac. I wake up at 6 or 6:30 and get out of bed immediately. The coffee starts right away. Then I get to the computer as quickly as possible. I like to start writing when I'm still half-asleep, in a state between dreaming and waking.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I write, I like to read obits in 'The Times' because they're well written, and I like the little details. It gets the energy going in the morning. I really like the obits of old Hollywood actors and actresses.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've consumed true crime since first discovering 'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi in a used bookstore at age 9 or 10 and staring in fascination and horror at the crime-scene photos in the middle.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.
- Nov 07, 2020
I thought labs were such cinematic, spooky spaces.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Dare Me' was first in development, it was hard to make the case for why it'd be interesting to anybody other than teenage girls. It'd often be treated, like, on first glance, 'What is this? 'Pretty Little Liars?' 'Mean Girls?'' It never was that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels like breaking rules is almost a given now on TV.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020