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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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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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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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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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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 am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
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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 think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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