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Emma Donoghue

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.

— Emma Donoghue people

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 men

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

— Emma Donoghue art

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.

— Emma Donoghue happy

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 art

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.

— Emma Donoghue thought

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.

— Emma Donoghue war

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

— Emma Donoghue emotions

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

— Emma Donoghue

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

— Emma Donoghue success

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.

— Emma Donoghue life

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

— Emma Donoghue love

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

— Emma Donoghue success

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.

— Emma Donoghue art

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.

— Emma Donoghue war

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

— Emma Donoghue sports

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue novel

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

— Emma Donoghue idea

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 books

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

— Emma Donoghue work

I read three books a week.

— Emma Donoghue books

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue sin

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.

— Emma Donoghue strong

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 life

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

— Emma Donoghue books

One thing I like about historical fiction is that Im not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; youre obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.

— Emma Donoghue people

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