I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

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.

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

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