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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
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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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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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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
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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 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 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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