283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

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

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.

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

So then she took me home, or I took her home, or we were both somehow taken to the closest thing.

Careful.” Why do persons only say that after the hurt? Grandma.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I’m not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

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

Better to drown in the surf than stand idly by the shore.

One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was.