I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

You know who you belong to Jack? - Yeah. Yourself. - He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. p. 261 Room by E Donoghue

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

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