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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: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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