“You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who'...” — Emma Donoghue Quote

“You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style.”

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

“I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.”

“Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.”

“Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.”

“If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.”