Everyone's got a different story.

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

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.