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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

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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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Decisions are made by those who show up.

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

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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

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

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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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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

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

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

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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

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

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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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Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

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