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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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I am interested in silences
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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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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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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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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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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 find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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