I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women … - Emma Donoghue

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Emma Donoghue

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.

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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.

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There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

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Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you. " I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

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Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

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It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. ” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

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