Top 39 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

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.

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

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time, and dialogue, but I'm not naturally good at strong plot.