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

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

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

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

Stories are a different kind of true.

The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set there are, and almost all the trades in film, there's a lot more men. So I can see without anyone intending to be biased [that] we have kind of a collective choosing of men's stories and a collective of taking men's stories seriously.

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.