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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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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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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
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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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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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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
Anne Enright
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright
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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
Anne Enright
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
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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 am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
Anne Enright
To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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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.
Anne Enright
The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
Anne Enright
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.
Anne Enright
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
Anne Enright
I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
Anne Enright
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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