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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how real your story is, or how made up: what matters is its necessity.
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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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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.
Anne Enright
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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 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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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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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 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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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.
Anne Enright
There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
Anne Enright
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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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.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
