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 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… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
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 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
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
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I needed to do a lot of saying no. I had a lot of [interest] from people who I just didn't think… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that… — 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
I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I… — 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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