I read three books a week.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.

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.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.