Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.