"A memoir is always the most authentic telling……" — Emma Donoghue
"A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places."
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76 Quotes by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue has 76 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
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I've been writing full-time since I was 23,
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The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from…
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Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was…
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She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap,…
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Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm…
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When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about…
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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.
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Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and…
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
— Allan Bloom
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I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places…
— Anthony Bourdain
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look…
— Alan Alda
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any…
— Albert Camus
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
— John le Carre
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting…
— Nick Cave
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going…
— Chris Christie
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
— Pamela Anderson
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