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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
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Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
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Else
Truth
Nothing
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Require

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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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 love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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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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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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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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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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I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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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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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 do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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