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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'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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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 starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
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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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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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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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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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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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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 never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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