Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Television Director
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Thinking
Clever
Like
American
People
Wish
Moore
Write
Messed
Women
Jennifer
Writing
Heartfelt
Much
Ireland
Think
Hopeful
More quotes by Anne Enright
A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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
People do not change, they are merely revealed.
Anne Enright
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?
Anne Enright
I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
Anne Enright
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
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
Anne Enright
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
Anne Enright
Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
Anne Enright
The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
Try to be accurate about stuff.
Anne Enright
