Quotes About Emma Donoghue

Actually, Saint Peter was in jail, one time -- I laugh. Babies don't go in jail. This happened when they were all grown up. I didn't know Baby Jesus grows up.

except one bit about a movie with werewolves and a woman bursting like a balloon is just special effects, that's drawing on computers.

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.