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Emma Donoghue Quotes: "The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute."

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing."

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.




Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened."

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons."

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.




Emma Donoghue Quotes: "It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind."

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me."

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could."

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.




Emma Donoghue Quotes: "When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green."

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad."

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Stories are a different kind of true."

Stories are a different kind of true.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing."

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet."

Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.




Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work."

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "It's painful to consider anything but writing."

It's painful to consider anything but writing.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words."

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything"

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Everybody's damaged by something."

Everybody's damaged by something.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well."

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?"

I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing."

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate."

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic."

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like."

Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Everyone's got a different story."

Everyone's got a different story.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "People move around so much in the world, things get lost."

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like."

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all."

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it."

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him."

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring."

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations."

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I've been writing full-time since I was 23."

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way."

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!"

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up."

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film."

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "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 more than ten minutes at a time."

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 more than ten minutes at a time.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "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."

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.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times."

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it."

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you."

What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in."

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet."

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore."

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "There are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all sorts of insidious powers."

There are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all sorts of insidious powers.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously."

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most."

I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it."

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.



Emma Donoghue Quotes: "Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer."

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.