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

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.

I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes.

Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly write a film?" - but now that I've got at least some experience in the film world, I'd absolutely love to do it again.

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

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

Everyone's got a different story.