Kristin Gore Quotes

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.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

I had lesser friends who would pretend to be interested in a night of catching up and then morph into giggly backstabbers at the first whiff of Polo Aftershave
woman who were lightning fast with the put-down joke or dismissive wave, whatever it took to seem more pretty or witty or larger chested to the nighly swarm of male barflies.

School field trips had always been a welcome escape from routine, particularly when they'd involved aquariums or grown-ups dressed in colonial costumes.

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.

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.

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

'Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

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.

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.

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.

I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

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.

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

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.

My parents were enthusiastic fans of 'Sammy's Hill.' But they think 'Sammy's House' is a better book.

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.