Emma Donoghue Quotes - Page 5

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• I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Come Up

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• Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

  Emma Donoghue

  Invisibility, Way, Saws

  Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”

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

  Emma Donoghue

  Identity Politics, Groups, Goes On

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• 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

  Unhappy Childhood, Said, Very Happy

  "Emma Donoghue: the books interview". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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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.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Space, Giving

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• Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

  Emma Donoghue

  Goodbye, Doors, Looks

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

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

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  World, Brightness, Next

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• ...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

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  Pain, Expectations, Cynical

  Emma Donoghue (2013). “Hood”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Medicine, Sick, Heaven

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

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  Would Be, Panic, Evening

  Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”

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• You know who you belong to Jack? - Yeah. Yourself. - He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. p. 261 Room by E Donoghue

  Emma Donoghue

  Rooms, Yeah, Knows

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• People are locked up in all sorts of ways.

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  People, Way, Locked Up

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• It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same. Before I didn't know to be mad that we can't open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.

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  Real, Airplane, Clouds

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• The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

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  Heart, Chocolate, Way

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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.

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  Lying, Kids, Simple

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• Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

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  Hands, Anchors, Punishment

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• I read three books a week.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Three, Week

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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, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

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  Swings, Feet, Space

  Emma Donoghue (2000). “Slammerkin”, p.384, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

  Emma Donoghue

  Sound, Sometimes, Persons

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

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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