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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: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
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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 do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
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I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
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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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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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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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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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