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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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Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
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Family
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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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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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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 do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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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People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
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I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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 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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