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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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Dublin city
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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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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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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I am interested in silences
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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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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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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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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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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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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