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.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.