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

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

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.

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

"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 do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.