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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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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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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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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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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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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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 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 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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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