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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.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
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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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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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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 I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.
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I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
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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 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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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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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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