Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

"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 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.

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

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.