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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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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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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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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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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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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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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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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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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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