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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
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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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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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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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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