Irish - Playwright | October 24, 1969 -
Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
Emma Donoghue
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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.
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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've been writing full-time since I was 23.
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For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
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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!'
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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
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I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.
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There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend their time; or else travel is often described in quite derogatory ways, you know, like immigrants swarming across borders, for instance.
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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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You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style.
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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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