Writer Quotes by Emma Donoghue

I read three books a week.

— Emma Donoghue

I've been writing full-time since I was 23,

— Emma Donoghue

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

— Emma Donoghue

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

— Emma Donoghue

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

— Emma Donoghue

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

— Emma Donoghue

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch…

— Emma Donoghue

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy…

— Emma Donoghue

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing…

— Emma Donoghue

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy…

— Emma Donoghue

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to…

— Emma Donoghue

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

— Emma Donoghue

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in…

— Emma Donoghue

I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good…

— 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…

— Emma Donoghue

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody…

— Emma Donoghue

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening…

— Emma Donoghue

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work,…

— Emma Donoghue

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of…

— Emma Donoghue

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single…

— 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…

— Emma Donoghue

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