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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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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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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
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People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
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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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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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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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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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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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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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