Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

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

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

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

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.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

My mother was wonderfully out about her dementia. She would sort of - she would say to me, I came out to the window cleaner about having dementia. You know, I love the way that verb for coming out of the closet has now become so socially useful for all sorts of situations, like when you need to explain to the window cleaner that you don't know if you paid him or not.