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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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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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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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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 is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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 think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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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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