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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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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.
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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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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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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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I am interested in silences
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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 can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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