Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

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

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

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 are locked up in all sorts of ways.