Room Emma Donoghue Quotes

#1. Everybody's damaged by something.

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. I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

Junot Diaz

#5. Providing post-secondary and academic education to only 10 to 30 per cent of our prison population can translate to more than $60 billion a year added to state and national coffers.

Christopher Zoukis

#6. Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Will Rogers

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I remember doing 'La Bamba' and thinking, 'Do you really think that Latinos will be accepted in mainstream?' and I said, 'Someday I hope so, but there is no guarantee.'

Esai Morales

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Emma Donoghue

#13. I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed.
So do we," Newel assured him.

Brandon Mull

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

Emma Donoghue

#15. 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

#16. The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

Bill Mollison

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. He who helps in the saving of others, saves himself as well.

Hartmann Von Aue

#20. We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

Patricia Ireland

#21. Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the wall. These people have no clue what anything really means. There are guys out there getting a million hits for a video.

Willis Earl Beal

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

Emma Donoghue

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

Jacky Ickx

#27. 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

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

Emma Donoghue

#29. This surrender, by a man of the Enlightenment and a man of truly revolutionary and democratic temperament, is another reminder that history is a tragedy and not a morality tale

Christopher Hitchens