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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: 61
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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Nothing
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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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 young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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 can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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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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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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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 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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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