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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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 became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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I am interested in silences
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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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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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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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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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