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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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I am interested in silences
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I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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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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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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