When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most.

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

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

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

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.