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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 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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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 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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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
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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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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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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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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
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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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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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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 am interested in silences
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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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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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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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