Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide several versions of their book, ranging from the Easy to the Complex, and buyers will choose what they're in the mood for with the click of a button! I do hope not.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

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

This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.