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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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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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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 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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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.
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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 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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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 became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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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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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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