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Try to be accurate about stuff.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Director
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Dublin city
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I am interested in silences
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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.
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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how real your story is, or how made up: what matters is its necessity.
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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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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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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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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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