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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: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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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 never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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I am interested in silences
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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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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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 have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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