"I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go."
Ann Brashares is an American novelist best known for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series for young adult readers. She has also written novels for adults, including The Last Summer (of You and Me). Her fiction has been adapted for film and has reached an international readership.