Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.

"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.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.