Top 39 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

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 tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.