Make a list of activities that keep you tethered to your creative world, and put it where you can see it every day - like, right in the center of your image board.

Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.

When I was reading 'The Underground Railroad,' I had to actually hold my hand over the right-hand page so I wouldn't see, by mistake, what was coming up next - it was so suspenseful. it's really masterful.

As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of Sesame Street that I grew up with that tolerated and embraced diversity in the Northeast, but in fact was built on the foundation of slavery.

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

I started writing when I was 4.

Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.

I have a brother I love dearly, although we're not twins! I'm ten years older than he is, so I sometimes feel like his second mother.

The success of 'Those Who Save Us' had an interesting effect on the writing of 'The Stormchasers.'

I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing thing.