I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.