I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

I've never even done a residency.

An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from an artist I liked or trusted or who excited me. Maybe one of the songs is really poppy and you listen to it on the radio as a hit single and then more of the world is about to find out about this artist by buying the record.