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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
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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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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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 write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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.
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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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