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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
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
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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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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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 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 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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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.
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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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