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Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue
Irish Playwright
Born: Oct 24, 1969
Been Me People Think Writing You
Related authors: Arthur Miller Graham Greene James M. Barrie Lynn Nottage Moliere Noel Coward Samuel Beckett W. Somerset Maugham
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
Work Beautiful Day Home World Will Weather Partner Lost Say Tend Beautiful Day Come Real The Real World Real World Notice Noticed
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
Me Eyes Every Think Those See Parent No-One Look Demon Child Where Moments
I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books. Emma Donoghue
Books Come Most Always Been Up Inclined
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
You Comforting World Sense Thinking Tooth Tooth Fairy Kids Lies See Magical Delight Part Make Fairy How Saints Form Whether Eternal Help
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. Emma Donoghue
Chapter Out Plots Some Structure Scene Marvelous Writers Particular Know Without Going Happen Produce Planning Novel Each Need
I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was. Emma Donoghue
Success Failure Way Finding More Time-Consuming Than Success Is Ever
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
You Happy Unhappy Writer Said Lot Very Get Childhood Just Happy Childhood Meant Lets
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 You Predict Aim Way Possibly Only Well Literary Cannot Your Thing
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
You Emotions Extreme Some Parent Most Normal Being Psychologically Produces Ever
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. Emma Donoghue
Situation Telling Memoir Most Always Authentic Gets Different Places Different Places Novel
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. Emma Donoghue
You Somebody Style Aim Way Daniel Niro Kind Kinds Writer Like Know De Niro House Well Himself Always Then Who Actor Two
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
Single Think Way Would Would-Be Shame Writer Genre Any Them Publishers
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.' Emma Donoghue
Work Me Better Remember Please Give More Look Contemporary Period Said Historical Selling Than Where Us Much Your Publisher
I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time, and dialogue, but I'm not naturally good at strong plot. Emma Donoghue
Time Good Character Natural Gift Strong Say Plot Would Following Point Point Of View Sort Dialogue Person View Naturally
Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent. Emma Donoghue
Parent Ideal Knows How Any
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 Great Side About Someone Through Come Great Thing Short Short Story Story Whole Thing
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 Writing Way Put House Off Gets Order Really Who
I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework. Emma Donoghue
Me Hate Homework Feel Like Make Doing Child
I read three books a week. Emma Donoghue
Three Books Week Read
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 Finished Giving Books Habit Had Soon Because Housing Got Cambridge Keep Lived Away
I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones. Emma Donoghue
Love Broad Characters Cast Contain Queer Including Novels
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. Emma Donoghue
Politics You Group Writer Identity Go Any Want Speaking

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