Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.