Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

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

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.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

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

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

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.