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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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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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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 think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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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'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 work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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 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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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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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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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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