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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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I am interested in silences
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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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’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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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
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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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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'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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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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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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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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