When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!

I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.

I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).