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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
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Literary Critic
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
Resistless
Powerless
Mars
Improve
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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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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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’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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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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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 do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.
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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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.
Anne Enright