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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: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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Dublin city
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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 thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?' So that worked out well.
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For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
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I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.
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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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The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
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Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.
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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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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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I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.
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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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I hate desks they make me feel like a child doing homework.
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I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called Femininity when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.
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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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I read three books a week.
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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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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 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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At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture
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