American - Author | June 5, 1977 -
Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.
Kristin Gore
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I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
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I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.
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I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.
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You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That's kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about.
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When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character's role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me.
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I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.
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'Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books.
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I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.
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I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
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The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.
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In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
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