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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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I am interested in silences
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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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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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 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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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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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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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