I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

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

I read three books a week.

I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance.