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Emma Donoghue is an Irish-Canadian author renowned for her plays and novels. Her works are celebrated for their deep psychological insights and unique narrative style. Born on October 24, 1969, Donoghue's plays have been performed in several countries, and her novels have been translated into multiple languages.

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“Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.”

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“If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.”

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

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“I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.”

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“Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly write a film?" - but now that I've got at least some experience in the film world, I'd absolutely love to do it again.”

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“People are locked up in all sorts of ways.”

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“There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.”

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“Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.”

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“The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. 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.”

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“Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.”

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“I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.”

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

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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.”

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“The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.”

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“You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.”

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About the Author

Born: October 24, 1969
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 155

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