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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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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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 became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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’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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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