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 More Quotes by Emma Donoghue More Quotes From Emma Donoghue 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 insightfulstoriessides 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 noddingshakesmatter In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. Emma Donoghue stressedhousejobs I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes. Emma Donoghue smellwritingart 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 hurtmattermind Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons. Emma Donoghue breatheairbook There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night. Emma Donoghue nightlongyears I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer," "Woman Writer," "Lesbian Writer" - any of those categories - you always slightly wince because you're afraid that people will think that means you're only going to write about Canada or Ireland, you know. Emma Donoghue writingmeanthinking Stories are a different kind of true. Emma Donoghue differenttruthwriting ...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words. Emma Donoghue sentencesmade If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could. Emma Donoghue cakeifsmade I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking. Emma Donoghue peculiarworldthinking When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything Emma Donoghue little-kidlittleskids And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts. Emma Donoghue castlestwoyears Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. Emma Donoghue bravecouragefeelings 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 creativebrainwriting ...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. Emma Donoghue lonelinessrealthinking He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing. Emma Donoghue teethminutes I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. Emma Donoghue scaredmadpeople 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 hymnsmotherhoodthinking
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