I Love To Talk With Children. I

"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.

I Have To Go With What Comes Naturally To Me. Fantasy Isn't My Thing. I Did Enjoy The Oz Books When I Was Growing Up And Certainly My Grandson And I Read Harry Potter Together. You Write What You Can As Well As You Can.

I Am A Big Defender Of 'harry Potter,' And I Think Any Book That Gets Kids To Read Are Books That We Should Cherish, We Should Be Thankful For Them.

Moms Come Up To Me At Book Signings.

I'm A More Skilled Writer Now, But After 23 Books It's Harder To Be Fresh And That's Really Important To Me. I Don't Want To Write The Same Thing Over And Over Again.