You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That’s kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about. Kristin Gore Read Quote
Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well. Kristin Gore Read Quote
There’s this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things. Kristin Gore Read Quote
When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I’d do things like go on a run with my soccer team and purposely dodge the security van. Then my parents compromised with the Secret Service when I went to college. I just had a panic button in my dorm room, so if I pressed that, they’d be there within 2 or 3 minutes. Kristin Gore Read Quote
The wrists, the Achilles’ tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can’t deal with the undersides of wrists. Kristin Gore Read Quote
It’s all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it’s very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out. Kristin Gore Read Quote
I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people. Kristin Gore Read Quote
In my free time, I’d written ‘Sammy’s Hill’ – it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself. Kristin Gore Read Quote
I didn’t realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective. Kristin Gore Read Quote
