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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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Literary Critic
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Dublin city
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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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 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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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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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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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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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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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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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