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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
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
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Family
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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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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've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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 never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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