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...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

Emma Donoghue

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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
Literary Historian
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Swallowed
Sung
Entirely
Sentences
Words
Back
Made

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A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.
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...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
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So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.
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The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
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I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.
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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
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I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to my father's judgment. But, of course, he's such a fond father that he always writes back, saying it's the greatest thing ever written.
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You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.
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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
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Everyone's got a different story.
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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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You know who you belong to Jack? - Yeah. Yourself. - He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. p. 261 Room by E Donoghue
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Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.
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There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.
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