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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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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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 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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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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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.
Anne Enright
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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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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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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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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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 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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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