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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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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
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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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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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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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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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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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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 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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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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No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.
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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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