When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

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!

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.