"It would I'm not there, though, me and Ma, we're the only ones not there. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” I was alive again, I mattered. Will he make worse marks on her?”“Today I’m five. […] The long hair, no surnames, the state of that tooth…‘”″‘Uh-oh, hitting’s not allowed.’ […] ‘Actually, boxing… it’s nasty but it’s a game, it’s kind of allowed if they have those special gloves on.‘”“I’m learning lots more manners. Yourself. Often you’d go off with a brochure in hand and you’d turn up and it wouldn’t be like that at all.”“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’m really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.”“I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.”“I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.”“The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.”“I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.”“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.”“I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.”“Identity politics are wearisome; you don’t want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.” When something tastes yucky we say it’s interesting.”“Nothing makes Ma scared. Before that I was three, then two, then one, then zero. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. Emma Donoghue > Quotes.
― Emma Donoghue, quote from Room “[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. “Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.” Born in Dublin in 1969, I am an award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter, living in Canada with my family. So after that I was polite" (233). Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. ” “ And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of … #Writing #Different #Stories “If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”-- Emma Donoghue . Emma Donoghue is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Quotations by Emma Donoghue, Irish Playwright, Born October 24, 1969. “In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
It makes my head tired. "I think what babies want is mostly to have their mothers right there. “And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.” “Outside has everything. Emma Donoghue is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.” "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Emma Donoghue . Emma Donoghue quotes Showing 1-30 of 305. I wave up at Skylight. See a Problem? Except Old Nick maybe. More Quotes from Emma Donoghue: When I tell her what I'm thinking and she tells me what she's thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other's head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.