"Writing stories is my way of scratching that……" — Emma Donoghue
"Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same."
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76 Quotes by Emma Donoghue
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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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I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. Its something that in…
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This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
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I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving…
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