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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
Literary Historian
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Writing
Seriously
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Room
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Rooms
Parenthood
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Remarkable
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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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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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People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
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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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Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
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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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The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
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Stories are a different kind of true.
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Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.
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