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.

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.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.