I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

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

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

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

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.

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.