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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.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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 can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
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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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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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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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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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 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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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
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