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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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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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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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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
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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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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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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 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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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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 quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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