Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

People love stories. They need stories.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.