When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

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

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

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

I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!

I am a tragically bad artist.

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

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

Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip. “We don’t have five minutes.

You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

I live in jeans, mainly Wrangler and Nudie. I like them as dark blue as they'll go and tightly woven.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.