I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.