Stephen Graham Jones
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I do want to remind peopl... GREGG OLSEN They?re just a better team than we are. They all can do so much ... It makes it tough to defend them... ERIC THOMPSON I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to... ANDREA BARRETT I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' se... D. J. MACHALE Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ... JACK WAGNER There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they'... CHAD HARBACH ANDY WARHOL The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them ... VALORIE CURRY We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an... ALAN YANG Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. 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