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I guess the feminism in Room springs to mind most.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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Dublin city
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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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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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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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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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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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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
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Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
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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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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.
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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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...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
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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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Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.
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Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?
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Stories are a different kind of true.
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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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I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to my father's judgment. But, of course, he's such a fond father that he always writes back, saying it's the greatest thing ever written.
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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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