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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Director
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Dublin city
Resistless
Powerless
Mars
Improve
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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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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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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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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.
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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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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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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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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
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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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I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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 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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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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