Room By Emma Donoghue Quotes

#1. I'll be in Heaven getting your room ready.

Emma Donoghue

#2. What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

Emma Donoghue

#3. I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

Emma Donoghue

#4. The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel]ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

Emma Donoghue

#6. The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006.

Elliott Abrams

#7. But for me, Room is a peculiar (and no doubt heretical) battle between Mary and the Devil for young Jesus. If God sounds absent from that triangle, that's because I think that for a small child, God's love is represented, and proved, by mother-love.

Emma Donoghue

#8. I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [ the book] ROOM was the result.

Emma Donoghue

#9. Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."
Ma says it but on mute.
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

Emma Donoghue

#10. Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

Elizabeth Montagu

#11. A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom

Jo Nesbo

#12. I think people can at least appreciate the sensibility behind the position I have. It is not a pro-marijuana position. It is a common-sense position.

Jared Huffman

#13. Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

John Waters

#14. Ma's in Room still, I want her here so much much much.

Emma Donoghue

#15. I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Robin Thicke

#16. I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Werner Herzog

#17. It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

Joseph Stiglitz

#18. This thing called Contrmporary America--and its obsession with televisions, game systems, and computers_has gone a littlr far if you ask me. Some call it the Information Age, but I'd tend to say it's more the Sitting-on-one's-butt-and-letting-other-people-do-the-thinking-for-you Age.

James Patterson

#19. I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work if it were a man?" Well no, you can't make a man pregnant, so it's got to be a woman.

Emma Donoghue

#20. I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose
or some other organ.

Frank Delaney

#21. Everybody's damaged by something.

Emma Donoghue

#22. I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

Emma Donoghue

#23. I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.

Emma Donoghue

#24. I've always been a sucker for attention.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#25. In Room I was safe and Outside is the scary.

Emma Donoghue

#26. That's tree persons in the room now and two of us, that equals five, it's nearly full of arms and legs and chests. They're all saying till I hurt. Stop all saying at the same time.

Emma Donoghue

#27. I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.

Emma Donoghue

#28. The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu.

Lujan Matus

#29. When Jack just rescued her Ma's, just succeeded doing the Great Escape:
"Want to go to Bed."
"They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while."
"No. Bed."
"You mean in Room?" Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes.
"Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.

Emma Donoghue

#30. Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

Inga Muscio

#31. I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.

Emma Donoghue

#32. I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most.

Emma Donoghue