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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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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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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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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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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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 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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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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.
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I am interested in silences
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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
Anne Enright
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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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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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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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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