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.

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.