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Emma Donoghue Quotes

born 1969 Canada

Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter.

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Random Emma Donoghue quote

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Stories are a different kind of true.

Room (novel) (2010)

"Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."

Room (novel) (2010)

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Room (novel) (2010)

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

Room (novel) (2010)

I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.

Room (novel) (2010)

Looking back, I can now see that Hood is part of a small but interesting body of lesbian novels of loss and bereavement (by people like Sarah Schulman, Marion Douglas, Sarah Von Arsdale, Carol Anshaw) written in the 1990s. We were catching up with the boys, perhaps; gay men really took the lead in writing honest and beautiful books about mourning.

interview in Irish women writers speak out by Caitriona Moloney & Helen Thompson (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emma Donoghue (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.