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Stories are a different kind of true.

Emma Donoghue

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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
Literary Historian
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
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Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.
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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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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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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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So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.
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Everybody's damaged by something.
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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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...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
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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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Everyone's got a different story.
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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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I hate desks they make me feel like a child doing homework.
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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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Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.
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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
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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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A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
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Goodbye, Room. I wave up at Skylight. Say goodbye, I tell Ma. Goodbye, Room. Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.
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Identity politics are wearisome you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
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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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