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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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