I Try To Create New Characters In

"margaret" Was Just My Truth. It Was What I Knew To Be True About Sixth Grade.

"summer Sisters" Is Probably My Least Autobiographical Book. The Whole Idea Started With Rowing Down The Pond. And I Heard An Explosion. I Don't Like Sudden Loud Noises. They Scare Me. And Then All These People Came Running Down The Hill And Jumped In The Water In Their Finery And A Bride And Groom Was With Them, And That's Where It All Started.

"summer Sisters" Was Actually Was A Huge Influence On "girls" Because It Was The First Thing I Ever Consumed That Sort Of Looked At The Way That Female Friendship Can Be Glorious And Can Be Complicated And Can Be So Like A Worse Betrayal Than Something Romantic And It Just Showed These Archetypes Of Femininity Than Totally Sort Of Individuated Them And Exploded Them.

Something Will Be Offensive To Someone In Every Book, So You've Got To Fight It.

Books Opened Up A Whole New World To Me. Through Them I Discovered New Ideas, Traveled To New Places, And Met New People. Books Helped Me Learn To Understand Other People And They Taught Me A Lot About Myself. ... Some Books You Never Forget. Some Characters Become Your Friends For Life.