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Everybody's damaged by something.
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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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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I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
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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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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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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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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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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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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 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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Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
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I read three books a week.
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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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Stories are a different kind of true.
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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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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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Identity politics are wearisome you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
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Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?
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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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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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