I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

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

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly write a film?" - but now that I've got at least some experience in the film world, I'd absolutely love to do it again.

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

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.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.