283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

I’m very keen. Adaptations of other people’s work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that’d be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it’s become one of my favorite genres.

I guess the feminism in “Room” springs to mind most.

What’s crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

The whole point of travel is to learn there’s no such thing as normal.

She gets sick of things fast, it’s from being an adult.

Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.

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.

Ma’s in Room still, I want her here so much much much.

We spend most of our lives holding on to objects, he thought, and finally they fall from our cold dead hands and those who tidy up after us have to worry of what to do with all this stuff.