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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Literary Critic
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Television Producer
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Dublin city
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Life

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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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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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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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 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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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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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No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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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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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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