Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in the room with all these smart pe….

I'm not too good when exposed to people.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television..

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word ca….

You come out into the world after a season of TV and you're just swearing and saying mean things to people and they're looking at you like, Who are y….

When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days,….

My way of looking at the world is that if it is true, it is funny and it is dark. No matter how dark it is, I just think it is funny. I can't help it..

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book….

We were like the Beatles, Dad.' 'I know you think that, sweetie' 'Seriously. Mom is John, you're Paul, I'm George, and Ice Cream is Ringo.' 'Ice Crea….

I want find a part of myself that I feel shame about, or that I feel really scared of exposing to the world..

Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They're everywhere and even if they don't get in your way, you can'….

I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or….

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's….

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares..

When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or the future or how it's goi….

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and its a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I a….

Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure..

Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Cra….

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me th….

The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be..

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to ….