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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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Everyone's got a different story.
Emma Donoghue
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.
Emma Donoghue
...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
Emma Donoghue
People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
Emma Donoghue
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
Emma Donoghue
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.
Emma Donoghue
I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
Emma Donoghue
I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
Emma Donoghue
You know who you belong to Jack? - Yeah. Yourself. - He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. p. 261 Room by E Donoghue
Emma Donoghue
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.
Emma Donoghue
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.
Emma Donoghue
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.
Emma Donoghue
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.
Emma Donoghue
I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
Emma Donoghue
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.
Emma Donoghue
Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
Emma Donoghue
Stories are a different kind of true.
Emma Donoghue
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
Emma Donoghue
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
Emma Donoghue
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.
Emma Donoghue