Emma Donoghue

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1969 age 0

   Born

2. 2015 age 46

   CreditRoomscreenwriter

• BLBrie Larson1 title
• TRTessa Ross1 title
• DCDanny Cohen1 title
• WCWendy Crewson1 title
• CACas Anvar1 title
• SBSean Bridgers1 title
• JAJoan Allen1 title
• WMWilliam H. Macy1 title
• LALenny Abrahamson1 title
• SRStephen Rennicks1 title

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  Photo:Katrina AfonsoCC BY-SA 4.0

• Looking back, I can now see that Hood is part of a small but interesting body of lesbian novels of loss and bereavement (by people like Sarah Schulman, Marion Douglas, Sarah Von Arsdale, Carol Anshaw) written in the 1990s. We were catching up with the boys, perhaps; gay men really took the lead in writing honest and beautiful books about mourning.

  Emma Donoghue, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Emma Donoghue, CC BY-SA 4.0

• "Are stories true?"<br />"Which ones?"<br />"The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them."<br />"Well," says Ma, "not literally."<br />"What's—"<br />"They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today."<br />"So they're fake?"<br />"No, no. Stories are a different kind of true."

  Emma Donoghue, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.

  Emma Donoghue, CC BY-SA 4.0

• "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."

  Emma Donoghue, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.

  Emma Donoghue, CC BY-SA 4.0