Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

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

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to my father's judgment. But, of course, he's such a fond father that he always writes back, saying it's the greatest thing ever written.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Stories are a different kind of true.