I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

I have a tendency to become very self-critical.

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

I have spent my whole career worrying that the big bad pop monster was going to eat me when I wasn't looking.

I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed like the most fun.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put my interest in the narrative writing of biographies.

Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically.