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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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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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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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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
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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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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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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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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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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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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 quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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