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Biography

Author Profession: Writer

Nationality: American

Born: August 25, 1964

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Any, Good, Press

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The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories. Marti Noxon

Words, Problem, Humanity, Insults, Deny

I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough. Marti Noxon

Proud, Enough, Think, Pie, Pretty, Just

Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe. Marti Noxon

Life, Time, Mom, Parents, Brother, Penny

It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause. Marti Noxon

Control, Interesting, Early, Escape

I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort! Marti Noxon

Vacation, Myself, Crazy, Think, Month

I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area. Marti Noxon

Love, Writing, Gray, Gray Area, Realized

It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That's always good; that's a constant. Marti Noxon

Good, Story, Direction, Always, Rowing

One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take. Marti Noxon

Good, Progress, Good Things, You, Back

Seeing Donald Trump run for and then win the presidency only enhanced my commitment to helping people free themselves from ridiculous body standards and disordered eating so they can use their gifts for more fulfilling things, like being of service and enjoying this beautiful world. Marti Noxon

Beautiful, Service, Commitment, People

It's funny: I've joked that 'Sharp Objects,' 'To the Bone,' and 'Dietland' are my self-harm trilogy, and each one is a different side of that triangle, with 'Dietland' really about fighting back. Marti Noxon

Funny, Fighting, Back, Different, Sharp

When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand. Marti Noxon

People, Trying, Understand, Intention

When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now. Marti Noxon

Darkness, You, Now, Dream, More, Right

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand. Marti Noxon

Experience, Me, Think, Interesting, Need

The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy. Marti Noxon

Happy, Status Quo, Never, Become, Things

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