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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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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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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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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
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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 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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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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