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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.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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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.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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 was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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