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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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I am interested in silences
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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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