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.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.

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.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

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.