I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

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.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

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.

Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.