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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.