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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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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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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how real your story is, or how made up: what matters is its necessity.
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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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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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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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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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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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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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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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