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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 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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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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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 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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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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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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