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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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 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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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 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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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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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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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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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 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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