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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Dublin city
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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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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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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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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.
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