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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.

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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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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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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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 do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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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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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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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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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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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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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