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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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 quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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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'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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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 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 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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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