Author: Emma Donoghue

Quotes

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

- Emma Donoghue

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

- Emma Donoghue

Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

- Emma Donoghue

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

- Emma Donoghue

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