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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.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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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 think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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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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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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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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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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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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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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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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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