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My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.
We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.
Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.
My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.
