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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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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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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I am interested in silences
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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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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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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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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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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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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 have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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