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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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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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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.
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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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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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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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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My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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I am interested in silences
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