Emma Donoghue Quotes
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That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.
Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing.
I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As
I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.
His plastic hand is up and he's waggling his fingers, I pretend I don't see. I'm not going to give him my fingers, I need them for me.
One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again.
Well, they don't make their music just to pass the time," says Jenny, grinning. "Got to want something to sing about it, no?
I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own.
[ ... ] You're not afraid of monsters, are you?
It depends on the monster, if it's a real one or not and if it's where I am.
It depends on the monster, if it's a real one or not and if it's where I am.
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.
Houses are like lots of Rooms stuck together, TV persons stay in them mostly but sometimes they go in their outsides and weather happens to them.
except one bit about a movie with werewolves and a woman bursting like a balloon is just special effects, that's drawing on computers.
I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?
Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.
One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was.
I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you."
I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.
I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
Was interesting." "Is that what your ma says to say when you don't like something?" She smiles a bit. "I taught her that." "Is she dying by now?
taking the killers, always two at night because she says pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down. She
She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of 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 was tired," she says. "I made a mistake."
"You're not tired anymore?"
She doesn't say anything. Then she says, "I am. But it's OK.
"You're not tired anymore?"
She doesn't say anything. Then she says, "I am. But it's OK.
I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?
It was easy to lose a part of your body, it seemed to her; there were so many ways, it was a wonder anybody reached their death intact.
I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.
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.