Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.

"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.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands