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I am interested in silences

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
Interested
Silence
Silences

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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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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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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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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'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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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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'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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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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 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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