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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.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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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 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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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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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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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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.
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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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