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

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

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

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

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.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.