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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
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Television Director
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Solution
Solutions
Problem
Writing

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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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 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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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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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 became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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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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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
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