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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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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'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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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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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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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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