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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
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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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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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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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