Novel Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to…

— Emma Donoghue

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

— Emma Donoghue

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for…

— Emma Donoghue

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

“Who knows what we all are before anything happens?”

— Emma Donoghue

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

— Emma Donoghue

“It's you that matters though, just you.”

— Emma Donoghue

At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other.…

— Emma Donoghue

“When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.”

— Emma Donoghue

“In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the…

— Emma Donoghue

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

— Emma Donoghue

“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.”

— Emma Donoghue

“I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own.”

— Emma Donoghue

Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide several versions…

— Emma Donoghue

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue