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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.

You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.

Emma Donoghue

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.

Emma Donoghue

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

Emma Donoghue

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.

Emma Donoghue

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

Emma Donoghue

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

Emma Donoghue

There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend their time; or else travel is often described in quite derogatory ways, you know, like immigrants swarming across borders, for instance.

Emma Donoghue

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

Emma Donoghue

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.'

Emma Donoghue

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.

Emma Donoghue

I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.

Emma Donoghue

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.

Emma Donoghue

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

Emma Donoghue

I read three books a week.

Emma Donoghue

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

Emma Donoghue

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.

Emma Donoghue

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

Emma Donoghue