If no one knows you, then you are no one.

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.

Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.