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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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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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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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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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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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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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