I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

How to be the best that you can be

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.