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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
Anne Enright
Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
Anne Enright
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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
Anne Enright
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
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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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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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I am interested in silences
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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.
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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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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'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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