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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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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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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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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
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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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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
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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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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
Anne Enright
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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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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