Zitat des Tages von Kristin Gore:
Both of my parents have great senses of humor.
I can go days without meaningful human interaction.
I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.
It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.
I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.
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.
In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.
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.
I like my leaders smart and serious. I don't need a stand-up comic.
I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.
From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.
My parents were enthusiastic fans of 'Sammy's Hill.' But they think 'Sammy's House' is a better book.
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.
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.
When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on a run with my soccer team and purposely dodge the security van. Then my parents compromised with the Secret Service when I went to college. I just had a panic button in my dorm room, so if I pressed that, they'd be there within 2 or 3 minutes.
My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.