Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.