Quote

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

Anne Enright

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Television Director
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Looks
Never
Mainstream
Writer
Happened
Wanted
Look

More quotes by Anne Enright

Image
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
Anne Enright
Image
Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
Anne Enright
Image
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
Anne Enright
Image
A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
Anne Enright
Image
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
Anne Enright
Image
The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
Anne Enright
Image
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
Anne Enright
Image
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
Anne Enright
Image
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
Anne Enright
Image
There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
Anne Enright
Image
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
Anne Enright
Image
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
Image
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.
Anne Enright
Image
I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
Anne Enright
Image
Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
Anne Enright
Image
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.
Anne Enright
Image
There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
Anne Enright
Image
Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
Anne Enright
Image
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.
Anne Enright
Image
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
Anne Enright