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

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.

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.

I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most.

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.