"Well, I think it would speak to you more now. Franny, the character, is trying to be real in a world full of people who constantly talk about how real they are, but seem to her to be a bunch of phonies. Sort of like Franny the person, don't you think?"

"She is in a play, remember? But then she quits. She quits acting altogether, almost because she loves it too much. It's too important to her and she doesn't want to do it for the wrong reasons, for anything resembling ego. She's ashamed of herself for even wanting to compete, for "not having the courage to be an absolute nobody". I always love that line."

"That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the ideia that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean if you do anything enough, if you keep putting effort in, eventually something will happen, with or without you. You don't have to have faith when you start out, you just have to dedicate yourself to practice as if you have it. She carries the book to remind her what's she's after."

"Quantity becomes quality by itself, like the story says. You don't even have to believe in your success. Just keep at it, like the fictional Franny, keep filling up the pages, and something is bound to happen."

- Someday, Someday, Maybe. Lauren Graham