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.

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.

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

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