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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.

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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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I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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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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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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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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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 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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I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.
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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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The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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