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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how real your story is, or how made up: what matters is its necessity.
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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 drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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