There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
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