283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.

I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

Mary regretted it a little already. Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

When I was four I was watching ants walking up Stove and she ran and splatted them all so they wouldn’t eat our food. One minute they were alive and the next minute they were dirt. I cried so my eyes nearly melted off.

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.

Las personas se mueven tanto por el mundo que constantemente se pierden cosas.

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.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don’t see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.