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This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
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I hate desks they make me feel like a child doing homework.
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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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