Emma Donoghue Quotes

Emma Donoghue is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award. and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. Room was adapted into a film of the same name, for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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✵ 24. October 1969  •  Other names اما داناهیو, אמה דונהיו

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Famous Emma Donoghue Quotes

“Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.”

“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."
Ma says it but on mute.
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Variant: It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Source: Room (novel) (2010)

“Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.”

Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Emma Donoghue Quotes about people

“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“People are locked up in all sorts of ways.”

“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”

Source: Slammerkin

“Soon I must vote for Oscars and BAFTAs, so I've been having marathon screening sessions. Top of my list so far is ROOM, which is brilliant in every way. The boy actor, Jacob Tremblay, is astounding. But most of all, it's a film that never stoops to the rigged mini-plots so often used to generate viewer excitement: it goes its own way, always surprising, always utterly believable. The writer of both the novel and the screenplay, Emma Donoghue, has produced a perfect work. People seem surprised that a first-time screenwriter can be so good, but the truth is screenwriting's not hard, it's having something strong and real and true to write about that's hard. Emma Donoghue is original and wise: that's rare.”

William Nicholson, "Oscar voting" http://www.williamnicholson.com/blog/2016/1/3/oscar-voting-2 (January 3, 2016) <br class="br">About

Emma Donoghue Quotes about the world

“A lot of the world seems to repeat itself”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“I've seen the world and I'm tired now.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“Ma: You're gonna love it.
Jack: What?
Ma: The world.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Room (film) (2015)

Emma Donoghue Quotes

“Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room (novel) (2010)

“Everybody's damaged by something.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“Stories are a different kind of true.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room (novel) (2010)
Context: "Are stories true?"
"Which ones?"
"The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them."
"Well," says Ma, "not literally."
"What's—"
"They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today."
"So they're fake?"
"No, no. Stories are a different kind of true."

“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room (novel) (2010)

“I thinkis man talk for.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Variant: I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
Source: Room (novel) (2010)

“Sometimes when persons sayit sounds actually less true.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“Everyone's got a different story.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“This is a bad story.”
“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”
“No, you should,” I say.
“But—”
“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.”

Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.”

Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”

Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“You know who you belong to, Jack?”
“Yeah.”
“Yourself.”
He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“… real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.”

“… sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.”

Source: Landing

“Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you."

I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

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