Everybody's damaged by something.

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.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

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

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.

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.