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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.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?' So that worked out well.
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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
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Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
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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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Stories are a different kind of true.
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I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
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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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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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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
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Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.
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Goodbye, Room. I wave up at Skylight. Say goodbye, I tell Ma. Goodbye, Room. Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.
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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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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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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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I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents? Steppa laughs. Folks with other things to do?
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Everybody's damaged by something.
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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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So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.
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You cannot predict literary success the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
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