It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

"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.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.