Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

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.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.

I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?

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

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.