Linda asked Harriet Lane:

Can you tell us what you think happened at the end of Her? I know it's supposed to be open to interpretation but I wonder if you had something specific in mind.

Harriet Lane Hello! There are clues throughout, but they take different readers in different directions. There are several different interpretations, and none of them are wrong, as far as I'm concerned.
I was always writing towards that scene. I knew before I started that the book would end exactly there, in that situation, with that particular question mark. I'm wary of spoilers but I guess we can agree that there's an undercurrent of unease and apprehension running throughout the book. Perhaps I liked the idea of ending the book at the moment when that anxiety is at its peak. The books I love best seem to get under my skin and bother me long after I've finished them. Often these are books with an element of ambiguity to them (The Little Stranger, Legend of a Suicide and The Haunting of Hill House in particular). I find ambiguity so powerful, more powerful (and somehow more true) than everything being neatly resolved.
Of course I always knew some readers would hate that ambiguity. All I can say is, I write the sort of books I want to read, and this was the ending I knew I wanted before I even started writing.

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