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I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie.

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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

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I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

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For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

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'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

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People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

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I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

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The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

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My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

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My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

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I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

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Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

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When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating.

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Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

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The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

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Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

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We kind of deny the stages of life.

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I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.

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