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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Literary Critic
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Dublin city
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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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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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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.
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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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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.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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I am interested in silences
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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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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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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.
Anne Enright