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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.

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Beautiful Beautiful Day Come Day Home Lost Notice Noticed Partner Real Real World Say Tend The Real World Weather Will Work World

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Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Chapter Each Going Happen Know Marvelous Need Novel Out Particular Planning Plots Produce Scene Some Structure Without Writers

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I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Child Doing Feel Hate Homework Like Make Me

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I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Always Been Books Come Inclined Most Up

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Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Comforting Delight Eternal Fairy Form Help How Kids Lies Magical Make Part Saints See Sense Thinking Tooth Whether World You

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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.

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Almost Because Before Complicate Definition Explanation Get Gradually Had Kid Kids Lie Never Now Older Only Put Realize Should Simple Something Summarize Terms Them Thought Trying Very You Your

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

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Go Huge More More And More Planner Years

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I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Article Constantly Fascinating Interesting Merely Myself New New Yorker Nothing Often Read Say Saying Sometimes Think Yorker I Think

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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

Topics: Across Another Book Chance Even Happening Ideal Innocence Know Off Our Paradox Publicity Reader State Yes Ah

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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Ever Failure Finding More Success Success Is Than Time-Consuming Way

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Playwright

Born: October 24th, 1969

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