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I am interested in silences

Anne Enright

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

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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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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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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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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 is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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 have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
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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 can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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