Everyone's Got A Different Story.

I Read A Lot Of Social History. If I'm In An Art Gallery And A Picture Intrigues Me, I Immediately Write Down The Title And I Google It. I Do A Lot Of Googling And Looking Out For Good Stories. I Can Almost Smell Them Sometimes.

Feminism Is Still One Of Those Taboo Words, So Hardly Anybody Talks About It. People Usually Go Gender-neutral And Say The Book And Film [room] Are About "the Triumph Of The Human Spirit.

I've Always Been Religiously Inclined, But It Doesn't Come Up In Most Of My Books.

Writers Should Be Applauded For Their Ability To Make Things Up.

With My First Book, I Was Hired To Write A Draft Of The Script. I Was So Young And Less Confident. They Put Me Through Seven Or Eight Drafts And It Was Just Getting Worse And Worse, And Then The Film Was Never Made.