Books Quote by Emma Donoghue Download Open image “I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.” — Emma Donoghue ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Broad Cast Characters Contain I love Including Love Novels Queer
“I set out to write a series of grand stories starring queer people. My vision has always been to let that "queerness" exist organically… — Hazel Blackthorn Copy Share Image
Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I personally always have a hard time relating to queer characters in media because I didn't really see myself in them. They were kind… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I love stories where sexuality is just part of the character, not the only thing about them. — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it. — Christopher Rice 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
