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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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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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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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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.
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There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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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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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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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 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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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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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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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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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how real your story is, or how made up: what matters is its necessity.
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