I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
I attended TED in 2007 and 2008, the last two years the conference was held in Monterey.
When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.
I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.
I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers.
I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it. I just can't stop reading about it or watching videos about it or listening to TED Talks about it.
Whenever I get in a car and I'm going to or from the airport or the train station, I put on a TED Talk using the TED app. It makes the trip go by super fast, and it fills my sails.
I was listed in 'Time Magazine''s 'Thirty under Thirty' and have given three TED Talks, too.
What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.
Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
I love documentaries and TED talks.
