When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.
Emma DonoghueWe used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.
Emma DonoghueThere may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.
Emma DonoghueI think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.
Emma Donoghue