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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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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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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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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not 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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I am interested in silences
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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