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.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.