I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.
I've consumed true crime since first discovering 'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi in a used bookstore at age 9 or 10 and staring in fascination and horror at the crime-scene photos in the middle.
I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.
I thought labs were such cinematic, spooky spaces.
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 think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.
On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.
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.
I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.
