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

I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

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.

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 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.

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

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