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.

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

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

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

I read three books a week.