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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

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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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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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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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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 am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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