I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment..

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me..

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go..

I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see all the incredible inventions I know will be ou….

People love stories. They need stories..

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me..

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without..

I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good relationship. Maybe you have t….

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself..

My first husband was a serial cheater..

E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective ….

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts tr….

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters..

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life..

I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly!.

A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth..

I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no mat….

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world..

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles..

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anyt….

A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and….