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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
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Television Director
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Dublin city
Silences
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Silence

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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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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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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
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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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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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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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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
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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 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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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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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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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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