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

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

Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.

I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.