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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
Anne Enright
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
Anne Enright
A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
Anne Enright
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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.
Anne Enright
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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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 am interested in silences
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
Anne Enright
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
Anne Enright
My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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