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With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.

Emma Donoghue

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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
Literary Historian
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Young
Scripts
Firsts
Eight
Book
Worse
First
Seven
Drafts
Writing
Getting
Hired
Made
Less
Draft
Never
Write
Confident
Film
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