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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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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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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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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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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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