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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
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I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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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 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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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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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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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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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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.
Anne Enright
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
Anne Enright
Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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