...Emma Donahue: The books interview
The awful thing, though, is that if you use your life for fiction, afterwards you tend to remember the fiction better than the life, because you've gone over and over it. In Hood, for example, I drew a lot on convent school; one day I mentioned something about our school to my girlfriend at the time and she said 'No, Emma, that's from your book.' I didn't want that to happen with Finn, so I marked up a copy of Room with yellow highlighter to record which bits were based on him. There was yellow on every page.
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