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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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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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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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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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 can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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 was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
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