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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Dublin city
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Writing

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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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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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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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 am interested in silences
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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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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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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 became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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 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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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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