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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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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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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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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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