And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

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

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.