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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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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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There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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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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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.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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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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