If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

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

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

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