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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 have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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I am interested in silences
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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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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.
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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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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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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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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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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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