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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.
— Emma Donoghue
thinks now. And sometimes, Little One. It's quite mysterious to
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Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing.
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I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
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I thought humans were or weren't, I didn't know someone could be a bit human. Then what are his other bits?
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The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.
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You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.
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I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
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She gets sick of things fast, it's from being an adult.
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People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
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Maybe I'm a human, but I'm a me-and-Ma as well.
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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?
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Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot.
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Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.
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I don't know why hurting means getting better.
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You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah."
"Yourself."
He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. — Emma Donoghue
The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
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She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.
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Please," he added. "I meant to say, please. I've thought it all through. I've thought of nothing else. I haven't read a book in weeks!
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I read three books a week.
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People are locked up in all sorts of ways.
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Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
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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.
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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.
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... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math. — Emma Donoghue
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.
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Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.
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Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As
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That night my new skin was red silk, shivering in the breeze.
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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.
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So then she took me home, or I took her home, or we were both somehow taken to the closest thing.
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I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
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In Room I was safe and Outside is the scary.
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Who knows what we all are before anything happens?
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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.
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If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.
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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. — Emma Donoghue
Real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
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Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.
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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. — Emma Donoghue
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.
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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.
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Sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
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I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
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Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
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You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
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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?
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In my experience of ward nursing, two shifts are more conducive to sleep than three." "But
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taking the killers, always two at night because she says pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down. She
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Everyone's got a different story.
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It's painful to consider anything but writing.
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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything
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She wants to slap everyone today, to pick up the whole sweat-slick City and punch its lights out.
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I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most.
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I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.
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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.
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Coffee's the most important thing they sell because most of us need it to keep us going, like gas in the car.
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It stands to reason that those who assault nature will suffer at her hands in the end.
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I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past.
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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.
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Everybody's damaged by something.
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Perhaps there is no providence, no fate, no grand plan, she thinks now. Perhaps we dig our own traps and lie down in them.
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I don't like a clever toilet looking at our butts.
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It's you that matters though, just you.
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A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
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I'll be in Heaven getting your room ready.
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When she pulled the ribbon out of her mattress, at first light the next morning, it was brown.
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Not beautiful, not brilliant, no longer young.
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No point my telling you he's not worth it, I suppose ... I've seen enough men in my time. Whoever he is, he's not worth what you'll pay.
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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.
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If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
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I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.
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Careful. Why do persons only say that after the hurt?
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