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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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Literary Critic
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
Silences
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Silence

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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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