Ann Brashares

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.