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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.
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I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything
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Stories are a different kind of true.
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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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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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You cannot predict literary success the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
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I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
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She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.
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I must say, in the case of Room, both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.
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I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance.
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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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Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.
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I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.
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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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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.
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