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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.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Dublin city
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Everything
Mischief
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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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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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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 young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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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 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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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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