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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
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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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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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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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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
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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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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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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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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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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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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The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
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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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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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