The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

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

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