Top 39 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

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.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.

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.

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've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

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.