283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There’s something mysterious about which ones catch you.

I’ve been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it’s never inspired me to write anything. It’s too good – nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that’s what makes for good stories.

So much of motherhood is acting.

I’ve been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what’s going to hurt.

Alice says she can’t explain herself because she’s not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then.

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

There’s not a thing wrong with you, you’re right the whole way through.

But no, I used all my brave up.

Now I feel bad I didn’t give her the second quarter. Grandma says that’s called having a conscience.