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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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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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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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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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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 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 think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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 something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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