I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

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

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

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!

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

Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.

I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her.