You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go… — 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
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
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to… — 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
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
