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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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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.
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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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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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