Anne Enright Quotes

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• People do not change, they are merely revealed.

  Anne Enright

  People

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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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  Book, Self, Dying

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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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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  Thinking, Phones, Talking

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• We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

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  People, Choices

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.110, Random House

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• Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, World, Opinion

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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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.

  Anne Enright

  Real, Writing, What Matters

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

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  Heart, My Own, Left

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.178, Random House

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• There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

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  Daughter, Running, Falling In Love

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.15, Random House

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• Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

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  Cat, Thinking, Lap

  "The Gathering". Book by Anne Enright, May 3, 2007.

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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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  Book, Writing, Pages

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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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

  Dream, Book, Finding Yourself

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

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  Effects, Hard

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• Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Problem, Solutions

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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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  Book, Fall, Writing

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

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  Novel, Written, Judged

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• I am interested in silences

  Anne Enright

  Silence

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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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  Cutting, Thinking, Eight

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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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  People, Different, Alive

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• A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

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  Talking, Doe, Drink

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.55, Random House

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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

  Jobs, Book, 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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  Dream, Men, Lines

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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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  Hate, People, I Hate

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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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  Book, Who I Am, Two

  "Anne Enright, Author, Answers Questions About ‘The Forgotten Waltz’". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

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  Real, Thinking, Remember

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.66, Random House

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• Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

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  Writing, Thinking, Good Writing

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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