“I’m a better writer because of it, and I think I’m a better person because of it.” “With the benefit of hindsight and as someone who now sits alone in front of a computer, I thank God every day that after my very orderly and pleasant Bush experience, I experienced this chaotic, dysfunction of the McCain-Palin world,” she said. Wallace said she now wears the entire experience “as a badge of honor.” She never received her absentee ballot “and I was fine with that,” she admitted. Wallace didn’t even vote for the McCain-Palin ticket. Take, for instance, the Couric interview and what should have been a softball question about what newspapers Mrs. The McCain campaign was turbulent, and to those working for him, it often seemed as if anything that could go wrong did go wrong. Which is not to say she wanted for material. You never wanted to be the one loser who’d been keeping a diary of everything everyone said for eight years.” “Mike McCurry told me, ‘Don’t keep a diary,’ so I never wrote anything down,” she said. “I don’t know that the press will always be so interconnected and incestuously connected to the person they cover.”īut she didn’t want to write a roman à clef with easily recognizable characters. “It feels new, like it’s different from the way it was 10 years ago, but it feels fleeting, too, like it’s going to be different in another 10 years,” she said. Bush’s first term, said that she wanted to capture the current moment in Washington. Wallace, who was inspired to write a book after reading “The Devil Wears Prada” during Mr. Wallace, whose gray-blue eyes and dark blond bob give her the look of the Northern California girl that she is, should know. She laughed and, miming a White House staffer ready to flee for the day, flopped across the table at Bistro Lepic, a cozy French haunt in upper Georgetown that she used to frequent before moving to New York four years ago.
People who know me know I was very devoted, very loyal, but was always like, ‘Can I go now?’ ” “She is so devoted to the job that there’s nothing else in her life. Wallace said, referring to her fictional character the first female chief of staff to the first female president, Charlotte Kramer. “I’m flattered frankly when people see me in her,” Mrs. Wallace’s first novel, “Eighteen Acres,” isn’t like her at all. NICOLLE WALLACE, the tough, savvy and hard-charging conservative political operator, was laughing and explaining why Melanie Kingston, the tough, savvy and hard-charging conservative political operator who just so happens to be a protagonist in Mrs.
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