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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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Literary Critic
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Dublin city
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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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 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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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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 became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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 think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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I am interested in silences
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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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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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