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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.
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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
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My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how real your story is, or how made up: what matters is its necessity.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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