Emma Donoghue Quotes & Sayings
39 most famous Emma Donoghue quotes and sayings (playwright). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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!'”
“I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.”
“The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.”
“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.”
“Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.”
“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.”
“One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.”
“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.”
“I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.”
“I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.”
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