Emma Donoghue quotes - page 3

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books. (Emma Donoghue)
Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent. View quote
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I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books. View quote
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I read three books a week. View quote
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You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style. View quote
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A lot of the world seems to repeat itself. View quote
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I thinkis man talk for. View quote
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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 them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older. View quote
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Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence. View quote
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I've been writing full-time since I was 23. View quote
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It's painful to consider anything but writing. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue - Image
Photo: Katrina Afonso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: Irish Playwright
Born: October 24, 1969
Quotes count: 63

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