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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.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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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 hate desks they make me feel like a child doing homework.
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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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Everybody's damaged by something.
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Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
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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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...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
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People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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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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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'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.
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