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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
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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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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.
Anne Enright
To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
Anne Enright
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
Anne Enright
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
Anne Enright
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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
Anne Enright
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
Anne Enright
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
Anne Enright
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
Anne Enright
We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
Anne Enright
Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
Anne Enright
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
Anne Enright
