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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."

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"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned."

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"I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."

Nature

"You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next."

Trust

"I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about."

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"If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to."

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"By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets."

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"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing."

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"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me."

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"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."

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