283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

In childhood, Lib remembered, family seemed as necessary and inescapable as a ring of mountains. One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country.

Dearest Fido! You’re not the stuff of a chapter,” Helen protests. “Several volumes, at least.

It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she’d shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

If you’re sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.

But if there’s no heaven what remains?

I’ve certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

All I think when I look at you is hallelujah.