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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
Literary Historian
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Dublin city
Maybe
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Human
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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'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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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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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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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.
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People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
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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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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'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
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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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The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.
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With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.
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I read three books a week.
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I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.
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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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The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
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Stories are a different kind of true.
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I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.
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