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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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I am interested in silences
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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.
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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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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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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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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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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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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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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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