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When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

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People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

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Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

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Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

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I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character would simply take up all the oxygen in a room. I wanted to hold off bringing this character in until the last possible moment.

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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

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Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

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Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

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A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

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The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

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I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

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Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

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I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.

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Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

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Decisions are made by those who show up.

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