Anne Enright Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Self, Dying

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

• 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.

  Anne Enright

  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.

• 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.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Fall, Writing

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

• The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Writing, People

• 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.

• 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

  Book, Kids, Years

  "Anne Enright: 'Love is a great punishment for desire'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

• I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

  Anne Enright

  Wall, Book, Writing

• 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

  Book, Who I Am, Two

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

• I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Winning, People

  "Anne Enright: 'I was always on the side. Like a salad'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

• 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

  Growing Up, Believe, Book

• 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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