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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: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
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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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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 do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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I am interested in silences
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
Anne Enright
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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