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

Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said, you know, see heaven in a grain of sand. If you look really, really closely at a situation, you can find almost endless interest in it.

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.

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.

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'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.