If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.