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.

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.

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