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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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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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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’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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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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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 can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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 never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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