Emma Donoghue Quotes

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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.
I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.
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've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.
I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
It's painful to consider anything but writing.
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.
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.
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend their time; or else travel is often described in quite derogatory ways, you know, like immigrants swarming across borders, for instance.
Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
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.
You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.
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 lets you get on with it.
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24 October, 1969
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