Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

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

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

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