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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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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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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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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 novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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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'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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.
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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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