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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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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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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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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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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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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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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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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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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.
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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 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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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