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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
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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 am interested in silences
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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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.
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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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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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