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I am interested in silences

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Literary Critic
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Television Director
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Dublin city
Silences
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Silence

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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'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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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'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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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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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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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My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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