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"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
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"If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite."
"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
"Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!"
"And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite."
"My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient."
"I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess."
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"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman."
"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
"Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other."
"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."
"Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't."
"When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth."
"I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around."
"While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story."
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