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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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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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I am interested in silences
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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
Anne Enright
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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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
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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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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.
Anne Enright
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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