What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.