Tabitha Soren

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.