Ideas Come From Everywhere -

"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 Never Read A Horse Book In My Life. But I Thought That's What My Friends Were Reading And That's What I Should Be Reading. And This Was "dobbin Does This" And "dobbin Does That."

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

I'm A Rewriter. That's The Part I Like Best . . . Once I Have A Pile Of Paper To Work With, It's Like Having The Pieces Of A Puzzle. I Just Have To Put The Pieces Together To Make A Picture.

Suppose There Aren't Any More A + Days Once You Get To Be Twelve? Wouldn't That Be Something! To Spend The Rest Of Your Life Looking For An A + Day And Not Finding It.