I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

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.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

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