If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

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You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

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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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I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally 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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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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It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

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I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

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