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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Anne Enright

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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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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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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
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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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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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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 am interested in silences
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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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