You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

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

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.