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Anne Enright
Anne Enright
Irish Author
Born: Oct 11, 1962
Books Me People Think Writing You
Related authors: C. S. Lewis Frank Harris Frank McCourt Iris Murdoch Kevin Barry Os Guinness Rebecca West Sally Rooney
Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe. Anne Enright
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life. Anne Enright
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down. Anne Enright
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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. Anne Enright
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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. Anne Enright
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since. Anne Enright
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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble. Anne Enright
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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. Anne Enright
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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. Anne Enright
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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. Anne Enright
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I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day. Anne Enright
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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. Anne Enright
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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. Anne Enright
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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? Anne Enright
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There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives. Anne Enright
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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. Anne Enright
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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. Anne Enright
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