Pipeline Artists

Reflecting on our mortality is a process of personal grief that comes with all the psychological pitfalls of grieving for another.

The beautifully tragic thing about this absolutely mental way of life is that you have no desire to do anything else.

It’s so fulfilling to work alongside someone who intuitively understands my intentions, knows when to push back, and can help fill in the gaps of knowledge and experience.

Having been told my entire life I feel too much, I am now in love with working in a medium that defies a lie we tell ourselves to avoid transformation.

When you start writing, your first instinct is to want to write for other people—but you quickly learn that it's not always sustainable to do so.

It's okay to take the time to find and seek—both yourself and the story you hope to tell.

If you’re trying to hit the zeitgeist, you’re gonna miss and be too late. Authenticity is timeless ...

And all of this is happening at a time when the culture is redefining women—tossing aside Harriet and Lucy for Maude and Mary Tyler Moore—and deciding that female student-athletes should have access to the same benefits as the guys (with the passage of Title IX).

I was dropped into a radioactive vat of freckles and now roam the Earth to ginger-fy its people. Er—no. Wrong origin story.

After college, I worked as a freelance writer and editor, along with several other side gigs, including an ill-fated stint as a Hollywood apartment manager.

I’ve learned I’m really stubborn about my work. I just can’t bring myself to give up on something once I’ve started.

In hindsight, it’s easier to find the meaning of suffering because you are removed from the cloudiness that suffering itself can cause.

I was busy imagining other worlds where gravity was different and people grew differently. I was inventing stories in these other realms. It wasn’t science I loved—it was science-fiction.

My whole process of writing the story was just imagining, what kind of person would actually do this? And what kind of person would pay for this?

If I were going into a meeting with a potential agent ... I’d try to be familiar with every title the company has recently produced, and learn as much as I can from social media about anyone who I know will be in the meeting.