Emma Donoghue

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

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.'

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.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.