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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.

~Emma Donoghue

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I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

~Emma Donoghue

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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

~Emma Donoghue

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I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

~Emma Donoghue

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The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

~Emma Donoghue

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I read three books a week.

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Books Read Three Week

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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.

~Emma Donoghue

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

~Emma Donoghue

Topics: Broad Cast Characters Contain Including Love Novels Queer I Love

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Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

~Emma Donoghue

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Playwright

Born: October 24th, 1969

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