...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide several versions of their book, ranging from the Easy to the Complex, and buyers will choose what they're in the mood for with the click of a button! I do hope not.

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 was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.

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

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

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.