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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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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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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 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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The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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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 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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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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 whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
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