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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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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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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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I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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