When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
From Richard Russo
Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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.
I can be glib and truthful all at once.
What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
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.
I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
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