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

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

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

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.