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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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 you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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I am interested in silences
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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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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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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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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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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how real your story is, or how made up: what matters is its necessity.
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