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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
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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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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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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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.
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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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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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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
Anne Enright
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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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
Anne Enright
