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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
Anne Enright
Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
Anne Enright
God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
Anne Enright
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
Anne Enright
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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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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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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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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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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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.
Anne Enright
One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
Anne Enright
People do not change, they are merely revealed.
Anne Enright
