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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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Dublin city
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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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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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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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Everyone's got a different story.
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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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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'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 remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
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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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Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.
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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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