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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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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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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 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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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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I hate desks they make me feel like a child doing homework.
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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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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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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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Stories are a different kind of true.
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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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...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
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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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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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Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.
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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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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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I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents? Steppa laughs. Folks with other things to do?
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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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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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...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
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