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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.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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 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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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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