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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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More quotes by Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
Anne Enright
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
People do not change, they are merely revealed.
Anne Enright
Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
Anne Enright
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
Anne Enright
There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
Anne Enright
I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
Anne Enright
The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
Anne Enright
God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
Anne Enright
I am interested in silences
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
