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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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Literary Critic
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Dublin city
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
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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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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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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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 became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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