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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
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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 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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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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I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
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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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