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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.

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 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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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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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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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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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