When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.

Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly write a film?" - but now that I've got at least some experience in the film world, I'd absolutely love to do it again.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Stories are a different kind of true.