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.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

Stories are a different kind of true.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.

There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.

You know who you belong to Jack? - Yeah. Yourself. - He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. p. 261 Room by E Donoghue