The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set there are, and almost all the trades in film, there's a lot more men. So I can see without anyone intending to be biased [that] we have kind of a collective choosing of men's stories and a collective of taking men's stories seriously.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

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

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.