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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.
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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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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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This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.
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...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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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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And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.
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When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.
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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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There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.
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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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The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
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Everyone's got a different story.
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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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