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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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Essayist
Literary Critic
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Dublin city
Tentative
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Loving
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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 am interested in silences
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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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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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