In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

Everyone's got a different story.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.