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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
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Dead
Else
Truth
Nothing
Thing

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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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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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’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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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 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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I am interested in silences
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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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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 do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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