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.

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

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

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

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