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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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 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 think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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