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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.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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 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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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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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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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 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 have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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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 think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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