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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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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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No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.
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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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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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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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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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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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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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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