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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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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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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
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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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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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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
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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 never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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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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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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