Emma Donoghue Quotes

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• The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the…
• Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
• I've been writing full-time since I was 23,
• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as…
• Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.
• She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like…
• Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun…
• When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures…
• Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
• Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.
• Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it…
• I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
• I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
• I read three books a week.
• I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
• I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.
• I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
• I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.
• I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
• I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

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