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Emma Donoghue Quotes

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: irish
Birth: October 24, 1969

Topics

Love Cast Queer Contain Characters

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

Work Good Money School Good Work

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.

Art Space Long Back Museum Out

To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.

You Scholar Salesman Well Dean

Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.

Brilliant Write Books Defy Generic

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Stephen Sondheim

You More Write Anything Easier

After that first month in Sydney, I went home for two weeks. I didn't want to ever go back because it was so hard.

Sonny Bill Williams

Home Back Go Want Sydney First

The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.

God Church Unique Nobody Kingdom

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

School Me Writing Thinking Learn

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

Great Think You Career Know Get

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

Love Play Way Cherry Those Guys

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Book Think Doing You Want Will

I can't play a slave.

Dorothy Dandridge

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