I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything.

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.