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

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
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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'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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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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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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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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