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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

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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 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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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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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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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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