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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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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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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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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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Identity politics are wearisome you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
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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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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.
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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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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 got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
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