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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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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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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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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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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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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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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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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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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 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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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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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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