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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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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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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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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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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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My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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