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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
Anne Enright
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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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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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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