"Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.

I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.