Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president’s house in D.C. I was 15 then. Kristin Gore Read Quote
After writing for TV for a while, I got sort of fed up with all of the cancellations and the volatility in that industry. Also, you’re always writing for someone else’s character and story, and I really wanted to develop my own. Kristin Gore Read Quote
I was one of those dorky kids who’d wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade. Kristin Gore Read Quote
I consciously decided to make both ‘Sammy’s Hill’ and ‘Sammy’s House’ more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C. Kristin Gore Read Quote
The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world. Kristin Gore Read Quote
I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books. Kristin Gore Read Quote
When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character’s role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me. Kristin Gore Read Quote
I can’t look at people’s wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn’t handle. They would stick their wrists in my face. Kristin Gore Read Quote
