Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle. Within its Spanish bungalows, its eucalyptus-scented shadows, you feel as though you've discovered a delicious and dark secret, a tantalizing page-turner with sneakily subversive undercurrents.

I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.

In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many more relationships, and they're all so critical.

It feels like breaking rules is almost a given now on TV.

When 'Dare Me' was first in development, it was hard to make the case for why it'd be interesting to anybody other than teenage girls. It'd often be treated, like, on first glance, 'What is this? 'Pretty Little Liars?' 'Mean Girls?'' It never was that.

On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.

I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.

I thought labs were such cinematic, spooky spaces.