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Everybody's damaged by something.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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Dublin city
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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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At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture
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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 guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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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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