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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.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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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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.
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The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
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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 can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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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 silences
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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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People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
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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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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how real your story is, or how made up: what matters is its necessity.
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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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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.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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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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