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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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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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I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
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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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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.
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I am interested in silences
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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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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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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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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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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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