There 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 DonoghueThe sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.
Emma DonoghueWriting 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.
Emma DonoghueSome 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.
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