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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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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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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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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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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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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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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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 think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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