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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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I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
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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 think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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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 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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
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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 became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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