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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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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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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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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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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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I am interested in silences
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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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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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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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