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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
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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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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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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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