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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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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 find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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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 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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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