Everyone's got a different story.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

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

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.

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.