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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
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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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 you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
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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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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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