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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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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.
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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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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No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.
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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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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
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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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