Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.
I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.