He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

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

I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it's become one of my favorite genres.

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

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.