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Emma Donoghue Biography

Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award. and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. Room was adapted into a film of the same name, for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

Five, Kids, Know, Like, Little Kid, Littles

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.

Beast, Castle, Castles, Flowed, Two, Years

My mother was wonderfully out about her dementia. She would sort of - she would say to me, I came out to the window cleaner about having dementia. You know, I love the way that verb for coming out of the closet has now become so socially useful for all sorts of situations, like when you need to explain to the window cleaner that you don't know if you paid him or not.

Dementia, Mother, Paid, Sort, Useful, Window

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

Fiction, Novelists, Pretty, Successful

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.

Complicate, Kids, Lying, Realize, Simple, Summarize

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.

Attention, Lose, Pace, Pay, Way

The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher
stalker
kidnapper
kidnapper of women or children.

Book, Children, Fetishistic, Jobs, Novel, Weirdo

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic, but to find a cinematic equivalent.

Book, Magic, Preserve, Think, Thinking

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

Huge, Planner, Planners, Years

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.

Emotion, Extreme, Normal, Parent, Produces, Statistically

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

Film, Hymn, Hymns, Motherhood, Room, Thinking

Everyone's got a different story.

Different, Stories, Story

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

Save, Shed, Skin, Skins, Sometimes

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.

Book, Cambridge, Giving, Habit, Keep, Space

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

Character, Characters, Directors, Numbers, Way, Woman

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.

Happy, Said, Unhappy, Unhappy Childhood, Very Happy

Everybody's damaged by something.

Damaged

I read three books a week.

Book, Books, Read, Three, Week

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Move, Moving, People, World

I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work if it were a man?" Well no, you can't make a man pregnant, so it's got to be a woman.

Make, Men, Stories, Story, Thinking, Tried

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