Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

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

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

Stories are a different kind of true.

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!

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.