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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
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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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When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.
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You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.
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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.
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I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
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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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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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You cannot predict literary success the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
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I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance.
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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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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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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
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I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.
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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.
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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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Identity politics are wearisome you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
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There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.
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