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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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.
Anne Enright
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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
Anne Enright
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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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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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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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
Anne Enright
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 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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
Anne Enright
There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
Anne Enright
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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.
Anne Enright
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
Anne Enright
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
Anne Enright
Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
Anne Enright
The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
Anne Enright
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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