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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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Dublin city
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We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.
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For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have...
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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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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.
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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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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.
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...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
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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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When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.
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Everybody's damaged by something.
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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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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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There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.
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A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
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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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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 think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called Femininity when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.
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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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People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
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