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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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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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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
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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 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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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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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 is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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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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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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I am interested in silences
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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