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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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