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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
Anne Enright
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 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 can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
Anne Enright
People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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 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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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
Anne Enright
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright
Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
Anne Enright
