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The most boring scenes are th...

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

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If you take my stuff apart, y...

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

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When I first used to tour, gu...

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

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I write nothing but contempor...

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

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My personal theory is that yo...

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

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People have to deal with thei...

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

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One thing I really envy about...

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

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A short story is something th...

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

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Fiction is no longer the domi...

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

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My grandfather was hit over t...

My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.

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A big reason why I started wr...

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

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My way of being with people i...

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.

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Most novels, I find, are thre...

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

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I will never write a sequel t...

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

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Crap has always happened, cra...

Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.

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Men want to make the best use...

Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power.

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Some of the best ideas I get ...

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

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'At the Gates of the Animal K...

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

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Minimalism seems closest to t...

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

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It seems that so much writing...

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....