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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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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.
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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
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I hate desks they make me feel like a child doing homework.
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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've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.
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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
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Stories are a different kind of true.
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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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Everyone's got a different story.
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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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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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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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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
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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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