283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

She leaped into space, high, higher than she’d ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away – meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic, but to find a cinematic equivalent.

This flu was clogging the whole works of the hospital. Not just the hospital, I reminded myself – the whole of Dublin. The whole country. As far as I could tell, the whole world was a machine grinding to a halt. Across the globe, in hundreds of languages, signs were going up urging people to cover their coughs.

Wasn’t it so often the girl – no matter how young – who got blamed for having incited her molester with a look?

I’m really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

Keep your heart infinitesimally small, and sorrow will never spy it...

Nowadays, ‘invisibility’ was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

I read three books a week.