"Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning……" — Emma Donoghue
"Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene."
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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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The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole…
— Unknown Author
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the…
— Gaylord Nelson
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I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want…
— Luis Gutierrez
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In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian…
— Charles Hodge
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Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a…
— Barbara Boxer
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Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You…
— Oprah Winfrey
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This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis…
— Michio Kaku
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
— Thomas Hobbes
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is…
— Charles Lyell
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their…
— Adam Sedgwick
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