I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

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

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

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.

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