Everybody's damaged by something.

- 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 found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sl…

- Emma Donoghue

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

- Emma Donoghue

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more th…

- Emma Donoghue

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

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

- Emma Donoghue

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

Stories are a different kind of true.

- Emma Donoghue