There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.
That which separates ourselves from previous generations is rhetoric.
'Brahmotsavam' is a love story set in a family backdrop... It's all about relationships people have on different levels.
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.
My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.
I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.
I was with a Russian family, and I couldn't believe that the grandparents in Russia, first of all I was shocked and delighted to find that the Russian family that I'd been told was so different from the American family, was exactly the same.
It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.
When I tell my husband stories of how I've grown up, he can't relate to it. I like it though, yeah, it's a badge of honour. You're from Up North, you've got to be a tiny bit rough round the edges. That's the charm!
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different.
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative?
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
A theme throughout my life has been the intergenerational relationships human beings have.
'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.
So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table.
One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.
As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.
Hard audiences tend to be when it's all men. It's when businesses have dos where they're at conferences all day then book a comedian for the evening. They're men of a certain age - basically middle-aged, balding, 50 to 60 years old and I just know I can't make these people laugh hysterically.
