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 DonoghueThere are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all sorts of insidious powers.
Emma DonoghueChange for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
Emma DonoghueSomething we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.
Emma DonoghueBefore I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
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