What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance.

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

When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

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.

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