When Ivy [Wilkes] begins her work in forgery, she doesn't yet know the toll that it will take on her own original work. She even thinks it might be a way to find inspiration. By the time she realizes that she has lost her own voice, she is thoroughly entangled in the forgery mess.

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.

Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself.

I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

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

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.