Emma Donoghue: Story

Emma Donoghue is Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian. Explore interesting quotes on story.
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“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."

“Everyone's got a different story.”

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

“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.”

Emma Donoghue

Source: Slammerkin